2Corinthians11

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(2co 11:1) Would to God ye could bear with me a little in {my} folly: and indeed bear with me.
(2co 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.
(2co 11:3) 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.
(2co 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}.
(2co 11:5) For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
(2co 11:6) But though {I be} rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
(2co 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 freely?
(2co 11:8) I robbed other churches, taking wages {of them}, to do you service.
(2co 11:9) 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}.
(2co 11:10) As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
(2co 11:11) Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
(2co 11:12) 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.
(2co 11:13) For such {are} false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
(2co 11:14) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
(2co 11:15) 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.
(2co 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.
(2co 11:17) That which I speak, I speak {it} not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
(2co 11:18) Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
(2co 11:19) For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye {yourselves} are wise.
(2co 11:20) 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.
(2co 11:21) I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
(2co 11:22) Are they Hebrews? so {am} I. Are they Israelites? so {am} I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so {am} I.
(2co 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 oft.
(2co 11:24) Of the Jews five times received I forty {stripes} save one.
(2co 11:25) 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;
(2co 11:26) {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;
(2co 11:27) In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
(2co 11:28) Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
(2co 11:29) Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
(2co 11:30) If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
(2co 11:31) The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
(2co 11:32) In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
(2co 11:33) And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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