Bible verse
I hope you will bear with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.
2 Corinthians 11:1 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Corinthians 11.
1 I hope you will bear with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.
2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
3 I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
4 For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it way too easily.
5 I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”
KJV
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in [my] folly: and indeed bear with me.
ASV
Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.
ERV
Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: nay indeed bear with me.
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