I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. {receive: or, suffer}

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

Who then is Paul, and who {is} Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, {ye are} God's building. {husbandry: or, tillage}

And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

For whether we be beside ourselves, {it is} to God: or whether we be sober, {it is} for your cause.

But {as} God {is} true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. {word: or, preaching}

And if {it be} not {so} now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and {to} Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think {of men} above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

For whether we be beside ourselves, {it is} to God: or whether we be sober, {it is} for your cause.

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. {receive: or, suffer}

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.