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Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly-and indeed you do bear with me.

²

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

³

But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted-you may well put up with it!

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For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles.

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Even though I am untrained in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. But we have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things.