2Corinthians:11:1-15

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* Would that ye would bear with me [in ] a little folly ; but indeed bear with me . * For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy [which is ] of God ; for I have espoused you unto one man , to present [you ] a chaste virgin to Christ . * But I fear lest by any means , as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft , [so ] your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ . * For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus , whom we have not preached , or ye get a different Spirit , which ye have not got , or a different glad tidings , which ye have not received , ye might well bear with [it ]. * For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles . * But if [I am ] a simple person in speech , yet not in knowledge , but in everything making [the truth ] manifest in all things to you . * Have I committed sin , abasing myself in order that ye might be exalted , because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God ? * I spoiled other assemblies , receiving hire for ministry towards you . * And being present with you and lacking , I did not lazily burden any one , (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked ,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you , and will keep myself . * [The ] truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia . * Why ? because I do not love you ? God knows . * But what I do , I will also do , that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing [for ] an opportunity , that wherein they boast they may be found even as we . * For such [are ] false apostles , deceitful workers , transforming themselves into apostles of Christ . * And [it is ] not wonderful , for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light . * It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness ; whose end shall be according to their works .

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