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;● 26`in' 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;● 27`in' 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.●