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title: 2 Corinthians 11
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**1 **Would to God ye could bear with me a little in *my* folly: and indeed bear with me. **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. **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. **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*. **5 **For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. **6 **But though *I be* rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

**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? **8 **I robbed other churches, taking wages *of them*, to do you service. **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*. **10 **As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting 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 which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. **13 **For such *are* false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. **14 **And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. **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.

**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. **17 **That which I speak, I speak *it* not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. **18 **Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. **19 **For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye *yourselves* are wise. **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. **21 **I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) 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 a fool) I *am* more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. **24 **Of the Jews five times received I forty *stripes* save one. **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; **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; **27 **In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. **28 **Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. **29 **Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

**30 **If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. **31 **The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. **32 **In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: **33 **And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.