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¹ Wolde to god ye coulde suffre me a lytell in my folysshnes: yee and I praye you forbeare me.² For I am gelous over you with godly gelousy. For I coupled you to one man to make you a chaste virgen to Christ.³ But I feare lest as the serpent begyled Eve thorow his sutteltie even so youre wittes shuld be corrupte from the singlenes that is in Christ.⁴ For if he that commeth preache another Iesus then hym whom we preached: or if ye receave another sprete then that which ye have receaved: other another gospell then that ye have receaved ye myght right wel have bene content.

⁵ I suppose that I was not behynde ye chefe apostles.⁶ Though I be rude in speakynge yet I am not so in knowledge. How be it amonge you we are knowen to the vtmost what we are in all thynges.⁷ Did I therin synne be cause I submitted my silfe that ye myght be exalted and because I preached to you the gospell of God fre?⁸ I robbed other congregacions and toke wages of the to do you service with all.⁹ And when I was present with yov and had nede I was greuous to no man for that which was lackynge vnto me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all thynges I kept my silfe that I shuld not be greveous to you: and so will I kepe my silfe.¹⁰ Yf the trueth of Christ be in me this ieioysynge shall not be taken from me in the regions of Achaia.¹¹ Wherfore? Be cause I love you not? God knoweth.¹² Neverthe lesse what I doo that will I do to cut awaye occasion from them which desyre occasion that they myght be founde lyke vnto vs in that wherin they reioyce. ¹³ For these falce apostles are disceatefull workers and fassion them selves lyke vnto ye apostles of Christ.¹⁴ And no marvayle for satan him silfe is chaunged into the fassion of an angell of light.¹⁵ Therfore it is no great thynge though his ministers fassion them selves as though they were the ministers of rightewesnes: whose ende shalbe acordynge to their dedes.

¹⁶ I saye agayne lest eny man thynke yt I am folishe: or els eve now take me as a fole that I maye bost my silfe a lytell.¹⁷ That I speake I speake it not after the wayes of the lorde: but as it were folysshly whill we are now come to bostynge.¹⁸ Seynge that many reioyce after ye flesshe I will reioyce also.¹⁹ For ye suffre foles gladly be cause that ye youre selves are wyse.²⁰ For ye suffre even if a man brynge you into bondage: yf a ma devoure: yf a man take: yf a man exalt hym silfe: yf a man smyte you on the face.²¹ I speake as concernynge rebuke as though we had bene weake. How be it wherin soever eny man dare be bolde (I speake folisshly) I dare be bolde also

²² They are Ebrues so am I: They are Israelites eve so am I. They are ye seede of Abraha even so am I.²³ They are ye ministers of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am moare: In labours moare aboundat: In strypes above measure: In preson more plenteously: In deeth ofte.²⁴ Of the Iewes five tymes receaved I every tyme .xl. strypes saue one.²⁵ Thryse was I beten with roddes. I was once stoned. I suffered thryse shipwracke. Nyght and daye have I bene in the depe of the see.²⁶ In iorneyinge often: In parels of waters: In parels of robbers: In ieoperdies of myne awne nacion: In ieoperdies amoge the hethen. I have bene in parels in cities in parels in wildernes in parels in the see in parels amonge falce brethren²⁷ in laboure and travayle in watchynge often in honger in thirst in fastynges often in colde and in nakednes.²⁸ And besyde the thynges which outwardly happe vnto me I am cobred dayly and do care for all congregacions.²⁹ Who is sicke and I am not sicke? Who is hurte in the fayth and my hert burneth not?³⁰ Yf I must nedes reioyce I will reioyce of myne infirmities.³¹ The God and father of oure lorde Iesus Christ which is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lye not³² In ye citie of Damascon the governer of ye people vnder kynge Aretas layde watche in ye citie of the Damasces and wolde have caught me³³ and at a wyndowe was I let doune in a basket thorowe the wall and so scaped his hondes.