2Corinthians - Chapter 11 | American Standard Version

  • 1. Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.
  • 2. For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you {cf15i as} a pure virgin to Christ.
  • 3. But 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.
  • 4. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or {cf15i 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 {cf15i him}.
  • 5. For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
  • 6. But though {cf15i I be} rude in speech, yet {cf15i am I} not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made {cf15i this} manifest unto you in all things.
  • 7. Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?
  • 8. I robbed other churches, taking wages {cf15i of them} that I might minister unto you;
  • 9. and 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 {cf15i so} will I keep {cf15i myself}.
  • 10. As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.
  • 11. Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
  • 12. But 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.
  • 13. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
  • 14. And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light.
  • 15. It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
  • 16. I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if {cf15i ye do}, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.
  • 17. That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.
  • 18. Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
  • 19. For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise {cf15i yourselves}.
  • 20. For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you {cf15i captive}, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.
  • 21. I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
  • 22. Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
  • 23. Are 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.
  • 24. Of the Jews five times received I forty {cf15i stripes} save one.
  • 25. Thrice 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. {cf15i in} journeyings often, {cf15i in} perils of rivers, {cf15i in} perils of robbers, {cf15i in} perils from {cf15i my} countrymen, {cf15i in} perils from the Gentiles, {cf15i in} perils in the city, {cf15i in} perils in the wilderness, {cf15i in} perils in the sea, {cf15i in} perils among false brethren;
  • 27. {cf15i in} labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
  • 28. Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.
  • 29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?
  • 30. If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.
  • 31. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not.
  • 32. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me:
  • 33. and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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