2 Corinthians 11 — King James Version

Would to God ye could bear with me a little in {my} folly: and indeed bear with me. {indeed bear...: or, indeed ye do bear with me}● For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present {you as} a chaste virgin to Christ.● But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.● For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or {if} ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with {him}. {with him: or, with me}● For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.● But though {I be} rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.● Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?● I robbed other churches, taking wages {of them}, to do you service.● And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all {things} I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and {so} will I keep {myself}.● As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. {no man...: Gr. this boasting shall not be stopped in me}● Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.● But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.● For such {are} false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.● And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.● Therefore {it is} no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.● I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. {receive: or, suffer}● That which I speak, I speak {it} not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.● Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.● For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye {yourselves} are wise.● For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour {you}, if a man take {of you}, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.● I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.● Are they Hebrews? so {am} I. Are they Israelites? so {am} I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so {am} I.● Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I {am} more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.● Of the Jews five times received I forty {stripes} save one.● Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;● {In} journeyings often, {in} perils of waters, {in} perils of robbers, {in} perils by {mine own} countrymen, {in} perils by the heathen, {in} perils in the city, {in} perils in the wilderness, {in} perils in the sea, {in} perils among false brethren;● In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.● Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.● Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?● If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.● The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.● In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:● And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.●