| 11:1 | Oh, that you would bear with me in a little follyand indeed you do bear with me. |
| 11:2 | For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ. |
| 11:3 | But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. |
| 11:4 | For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or [if] you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not acceptedyou may well put up with it! |
| 11:5 | For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles. |
| 11:6 | Even though [I am] untrained in speech, yet [I am] not in knowledge. But we have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things. |
| 11:7 | Did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge? |
| 11:8 | I robbed other churches, taking wages [from them] to minister to you. |
| 11:9 | And when I was present with you, and in need, I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied. And in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep [myself]. |
| 11:10 | As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. |
| 11:11 | Why? Because I do not love you? God knows! |
| 11:12 | But what I do, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast. |
| 11:13 | For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. |
| 11:14 | And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. |
| 11:15 | Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. |
| 11:16 | I say again, let no one think me a fool. If otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little. |
| 11:17 | What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. |
| 11:18 | Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast. |
| 11:19 | For you put up with fools gladly, since you [yourselves] are wise! |
| 11:20 | For you put up with it if one brings you into bondage, if one devours [you], if one takes [from you], if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face. |
| 11:21 | To [our] shame, I say that we were too weak for that! But in whatever anyone is boldI speak foolishlyI am bold also. |
| 11:22 | Are they Hebrews? So [am] I. Are they Israelites? So [am] I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So [am] I. |
| 11:23 | Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a foolI [am] more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. |
| 11:24 | From the Jews five times I received forty [stripes] minus one. |
| 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 been in the deep; |
| 11:26 | [in] journeys often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils of [my own] countrymen, [in] perils of the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; |
| 11:27 | in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness |
| 11:28 | besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches. |
| 11:29 | Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation? |
| 11:30 | If I must boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity. |
| 11:31 | The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. |
| 11:32 | In Damascus the governor, under Aretas the king, was guarding the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desiring to arrest me; |
| 11:33 | but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands. |
2 Korintus 11 - New King James Version
