2 Corinthians 11
11 1Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but
indeed ye do bear with me.
2For I am jealous over you with a godly
jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you
as a pure virgin to Christ.
3But I fear, lest by any means, as
the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted
from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
4For 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.
5For I
reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
6But
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.
7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted,
because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?
8I robbed other
churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;
9and 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.
10As the truth of
Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of
Achaia.
11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
12But 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.
13For
such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into
apostles of Christ.
14And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself
into an angel of light.
15It is no great thing therefore if his ministers
also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be
according to their works.
16I say again, let no man think me foolish; but
if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.
17That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness,
in this confidence of glorying.
18Seeing that many glory after the flesh,
I will glory also.
19For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise
yourselves.
20For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into
bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he
exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.
21I speak by way of
disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I
speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are
they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
23Are
they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors
more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in
deaths oft.
24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes
save one.
25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I
suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep;
26in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in
perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in
perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in
the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false
brethren;
27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger
and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28Besides those
things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety
for all the churches.
29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to
stumble, and I burn not?
30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the
things that concern my weakness.
31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus,
he who is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not.
32In Damascus the
governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to
take me:
33and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall,
and escaped his hands.
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