| 11:1 | O that ye could bear with me a little in [my] folly: and indeed bear with me. |
| 11:2 | 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. |
| 11:3 | But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. |
| 11:4 | 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]. |
| 11:5 | For I suppose I was not a bit behind the very greatest apostles. |
| 11:6 | But though [I am] rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made evident among you in all things. |
| 11:7 | Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God without charge? |
| 11:8 | I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to do you service. |
| 11:9 | And when I was present with you, and in need, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and [so] will I keep [myself]. |
| 11:10 | As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. |
| 11:11 | Why? because I love you not? God knoweth. |
| 11:12 | But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them who desire occasion; that in what they glory, they may be found even as we. |
| 11:13 | For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. |
| 11:14 | And no wonder; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. |
| 11:15 | Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also are transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. |
| 11:16 | 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. |
| 11:17 | That which I speak, I speak [it] not according to the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. |
| 11:18 | Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. |
| 11:19 | For ye bear with fools gladly, seeing ye [yourselves] are wise. |
| 11:20 | For ye bear with it, if a man bringeth you into bondage, if a man devoureth [you], if a man taketh [from you], if a man exalteth himself, if a man smiteth you on the face. |
| 11:21 | I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. But in whatever respect any is bold, (I speak foolishly,)I 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 fool) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often. |
| 11:24 | From the Jews five times I received forty [stripes] less one. |
| 11:25 | Three times was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; |
| 11:26 | [In] journeyings often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by [my 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; |
| 11:27 | In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. |
| 11:28 | Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. |
| 11:29 | Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is led into sin, and I am not incensed? |
| 11:30 | If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern my infirmities. |
| 11:31 | The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. |
| 11:32 | In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: |
| 11:33 | And through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. |
2 Corinthians 11 - Revised Webster Version
