| 2 Cor. 11:1 |
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you do bear with me. |
| 2 Cor. 11:2 |
For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to present [you as] a pure virgin to Christ. |
| 2 Cor. 11:3 |
But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your thoughts would be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity toward Christ. |
| 2 Cor. 11:4 |
For if indeed he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit, which you have not received, or a different gospel, which you have not accepted, you bear well with [him.] |
| 2 Cor. 11:5 |
But I count myself to be inferior to the super-apostles in nothing. |
| 2 Cor. 11:6 |
But even if [I am] a layman in speech, yet [I am] not in knowledge; indeed in every way we have made [this] manifest in all things to you. |
| 2 Cor. 11:7 |
Or did I commit a sin, abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I announced the gospel of God to you free of charge? |
| 2 Cor. 11:8 |
I robbed other churches, taking wages for the ministry to you. |
| 2 Cor. 11:9 |
And when I was present with you and lacked, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia filled up my lack, and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and will keep [myself.] |
| 2 Cor. 11:10 |
The truthfulness of Christ is in me, that this boasting shall not be stopped as it regards me in the regions of Achaia. |
| 2 Cor. 11:11 |
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows. |
| 2 Cor. 11:12 |
But what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those desiring an opportunity, that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we. |
| 2 Cor. 11:13 |
For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transfiguring themselves into apostles of Christ. |
| 2 Cor. 11:14 |
And no wonder, for Satan himself transfigures himself into an angel of light. |
| 2 Cor. 11:15 |
Therefore it is no great thing if also his ministers transfigure themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. |
| 2 Cor. 11:16 |
Again I say, Let no one think me to be foolish; but if otherwise, accept me even as if [I were] foolish, that I also may boast a little. |
| 2 Cor. 11:17 |
What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord but as if in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. |
| 2 Cor. 11:18 |
Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast. |
| 2 Cor. 11:19 |
For you bear gladly with fools because you [yourselves] are wise. |
| 2 Cor. 11:20 |
For you bear [it] if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours [you,] if anyone takes [you,] if anyone lifts himself up, if anyone beats you in the face. |
| 2 Cor. 11:21 |
By way of self-disparagement I say [this,] Supposedly we ourselves were weak. But in whatever anyone [else] is daring, I speak in foolishness, I also am daring. |
| 2 Cor. 11:22 |
Hebrews are they? I also. Israelites are they? I also. The seed of Abraham are they? I also. |
| 2 Cor. 11:23 |
Ministers of Christ are they? I speak as being beside myself, I more so! In labors more abundantly, in imprisonments more abundantly, in stripes excessively, in deaths often. |
| 2 Cor. 11:24 |
Under [the hands of] the Jews five times I received forty [stripes] less one; |
| 2 Cor. 11:25 |
Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep; |
| 2 Cor. 11:26 |
In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from [my] race, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brothers; |
| 2 Cor. 11:27 |
In labor and hardship; in watchings often; in hunger and thirst; in fastings often; in cold and nakedness-- |
| 2 Cor. 11:28 |
Apart from the things which [have] not [been mentioned, there is this:] the crowd [of cares] pressing upon me daily, the anxious concern for all the churches. |
| 2 Cor. 11:29 |
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I myself do not burn? |
| 2 Cor. 11:30 |
If I must boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness. |
| 2 Cor. 11:31 |
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. |
| 2 Cor. 11:32 |
In Damascus, the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me; |
| 2 Cor. 11:33 |
And in a basket I was lowered through a window, through the wall, and escaped his hands. |