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For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or [if] ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with [him].
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For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
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But though [I be] rude in speech, yet [am I] not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made [this] manifest unto you in all things.
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Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?
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I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you;
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and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself].
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As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.
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Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
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But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
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For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
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And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light.