2 Corinthians 11:1
Would that ye would bear with me in a little folly; but indeed bear with me.
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy which is of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, so your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:4
For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with it .
2 Corinthians 11:5
For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:6
But if I am a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making the truth manifest in all things to you.
2 Corinthians 11:7
Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that *ye* might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?
2 Corinthians 11:8
I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry towards you.
2 Corinthians 11:9
And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.
2 Corinthians 11:10
The truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 11:11
Why? because I do not love you? God knows.
2 Corinthians 11:12
But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing for an opportunity, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:14
And it is not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:15
It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
2 Corinthians 11:16
Again I say, Let not any one think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, receive me then even as a fool, that *I* also may boast myself some little.
2 Corinthians 11:17
What I speak I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.
2 Corinthians 11:18
Since many boast according to flesh, *I* also will boast.
2 Corinthians 11:19
For ye bear fools readily, being wise.
2 Corinthians 11:20
For ye bear if any one bring you into bondage, if any one devour you , if any one get your money , if any one exalt himself, if any one beat you on the face.
2 Corinthians 11:21
I speak as to dishonour, as though *we* had been weak; but wherein any one is daring, (I speak in folly,) *I* also am daring.
2 Corinthians 11:22
Are they Hebrews? *I* also. Are they Israelites? *I* also. Are they seed of Abraham? *I* also.
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) *I* above measure so ; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.
2 Corinthians 11:24
From the Jews five times have I received forty stripes , save one.
2 Corinthians 11:25
Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep:
2 Corinthians 11:26
in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 11:28
Besides those things that are without, the crowd of cares pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.
2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?
2 Corinthians 11:30
If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.
2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows--he who is blessed for ever--that I do not lie.
2 Corinthians 11:32
In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me;
2 Corinthians 11:33
and through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.