2Corinthians:11:1-15

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* I wish you would bear with me a little in my foolishness : yes , indeed , bear with me : * for I am jealous of you with a godly jealousy ; because I have espoused you to one husband , that I might present you a chaste virgin to Christ . * But I am afraid that , by some means , as the serpent beguiled Eve by his subtlety , so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity due to Christ . * For , if , indeed , he who has come preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached ; or , if you receive another Spirit which you have not received ; or another gospel which you have not embraced ; you might justly bear with him . * For I reckon myself to have come nothing short of the very chief of the Apostles . * And even though I be rude in speech , yet not in knowledge . But upon the whole , we have been made manifest to you in all things . * Have I committed an offense in humbling myself that you might be exalted ; because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely ? * I robbed other congregations , taking wages of them to do you service ; * for being present with you , and in want , we were burdensome to no one ; but what I wanted , the brethren from Macedonia supplied : and in everything I have kept , and will keep myself from being burdensome to you . * Is the truth in me ? then this my boasting shall not be prevented in the regions of Achaia . * For what reason ? because I do not love you ? God knows . * But what I do , that I will do , that I may cut off opportunity from them who desire opportunity ; that in what they boast , they may be found even as we . * For such are false Apostles , deceitful workmen , transforming themselves into Apostles of Christ . * And no wonder ; for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light . * Therefore , it is no great wonder if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness : whose end shall be according to their works .

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