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2 Corinthians 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.