2Corinthians - Chapter 11 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Would to God ye could bear with me a little in {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I if} ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with {cf15I him}.
  • 5. For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
  • 6. But though {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I things} I have 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 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I yourselves} are wise.
  • 20. For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour {cf15I you}, if a man take {cf15I 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 {cf15I am} I. Are they Israelites? so {cf15I am} I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so {cf15I am} I.
  • 23. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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. {cf15I In} journeyings often, {cf15I in} perils of waters, {cf15I in} perils of robbers, {cf15I in} perils by {cf15I mine own} countrymen, {cf15I in} perils by the heathen, {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. 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.
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