2 Corinthians 11

Would to God you could ^abear with me a little in ^bmy folly: and indeed ^abear with me. ²For I am ^cjealous over you with godly jealousy: for ^dI have espoused you to one husband, ^efthat I may present you ^fas a chaste virgin to Christ. ³But I fear, lest by any means, as ^gthe serpent ^hbeguiled Eve through his ⁱsubtilty, so your ^jminds ^kshould be corrupted from the ^lsimplicity that is in Christ. ⁴For if ^mhe that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or ⁿanother gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well ^abear with him. ⁵For I ^osuppose I was ^pnot a whit behind the very ^qchiefest apostles. ⁶But ^rthough I be ^srude in speech, ^tyet not in knowledge; but ^ttwe have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. ⁷Have I committed ^uan offence in ^vabasing myself that you might be exalted, because ^wI have preached to you the gospel of God ^xfreely? ⁸I robbed other churches, taking ^ywages of them, to do you service. ⁹And when I was present with you, and wanted, ^xzI was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me ^athe brethren which came from ^bMacedonia supplied: and in all things ^cI have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will I keep myself. ^10dAs the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this ^fboasting in the ^gregions of ^hAchaia. ¹¹Wherefore? ⁱbecause I love you not? ^kGod knoweth. ¹²But what I do, that I will do, ^lthat I may cut off ^moccasion from them which desire ^moccasion; that wherein they glory, ⁿthey may be found even as we. ¹³For ^osuch are ^pfalse apostles, ^qdeceitful workers, ^rtransforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. ¹⁴And no marvel; for ^sSatan himself is ^rtransformed into ^tan angel of light. ¹⁵Therefore it is no great thing if ^uhis ministers also be ^rtransformed as ^vthe ministers of righteousness; ^wwhose end shall be according to their works.

¹⁶I ^xsay again, ^yLet no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool ^zreceive me, that I may boast myself a little. ¹⁷That which I speak, ^aI speak it not after the Lord, but as it were ⁿfoolishly, ^bin this confidence of boasting. ¹⁸Seeing that many glory ^cafter the flesh, ^dI will glory also. ¹⁹For ^eye suffer fools gladly, ^fseeing ye yourselves are wise. ²⁰For ^eye suffer, if a man ^gbring you into bondage, ^hif a man devour you, if a man ⁱtake of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man ^ksmite you on the face. ²¹I speak as concerning ^lreproach, ^mas though we had been weak. Howbeit ^dwhereinsoever any is bold, (I speak ⁿfoolishly,) I am bold also. ²²Are they ^oHebrews? so am I. Are they ^pIsraelites? so am I. Are they ^qthe seed of Abraham? so am I. ²³Are they ^rministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; ^stin labours more abundant, ^tuin stripes above measure, ^tvin prisons more frequent, ^win deaths oft. ^24xOf the Jews five times received I ^yforty stripes save one. ²⁵Thrice was I ^zbeaten with rods, ^aonce was I stoned, thrice I ^bsuffered shipwrack, a night and a day I have been in the deep; ²⁶in journeyings often, in ^cperils of waters, in perils of ^drobbers, in ^cperils ^eby my own countrymen, in perils ^fby the heathen, in perils ^gin the city, in perils in ^ggthe wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among ^hfalse brethren; ²⁷ⁱin ^jweariness and ^jpainfulness, ⁱin watchings often, ^klin hunger and ^kthirst, ⁱin ^mfastings often, in cold and ^knakedness. ²⁸Besides those things that are without, ⁿthat which cometh upon me daily, ^othe care of ^pall the churches. ^29qWho is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? ³⁰If I must needs glory, ^rI will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. ^31sThe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^twhich is blessed for evermore, ^uknoweth that I lie not. ^32vIn Damascus ^wthe governor under ^xAretas the king ^ykept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: ³³and ^zthrough ^aa window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

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