2Corinthians:11

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* I want to say something a little bit foolish . But please listen to me ! * I love you as God loves you . I see you as a woman who has not been married and I am giving you to be the wife of a husband . That husband is Christ . * But the snake fooled Eve by his trick . And I am afraid that your minds will be drawn away from a clean , pure love of Christ . * You listen to a new man when he comes to tell you about a different Jesus , which is not the one we told you about . And when you receive a spirit and a message which are not the ones you had first , then you listen too much . * But I really do not think that the chief apostles are any better than I am ! * Maybe I am not a good talker , but I surely know what I am talking about ! Yes , we made this plain to you in every way in all things . * Perhaps it was wrong for me to bring myself down in order to raise you up . Do you think that ? Was it wrong for me to tell you the good news without pay ? * I took pay from other churches . I made them poor so that I might help you . * When I was with you and needed money , I did not make any of you pay me . When the brothers came from Macedonia , they gave me what I needed . So I was not , and I will not be , any trouble to you . * Surely , the true word of Christ is in me . I will never stop being proud of this anywhere in Achaia &lt ;FI &gt ;Greece &lt ;Fi &gt ;. * Why is this ? Is it because I do not love you ? God knows that I love you . * And I will keep on doing what I am doing now . Some teachers are praising themselves . They say they are like us . By doing this I prove they are not like us . * Men like that are not true apostles . They work to fool people . They try to make themselves look like apostles of Christ . * I am not surprised . Satan tries to make himself look like an angel of light . * So it is not strange if his workers also try to make themselves look like Gods workers who do right . They will come to an end like the work they do ! think that I am foolish . But if you do , then please listen to me as if I were foolish . I also want to do a little talking about myself . * I am not talking like the Lord when I say this . It seems foolish to say so much about myself . * Many people talk about themselves in the world . So I will too . * Since you are wise , you still agree to listen to foolish people . * You listen to a man even if he makes slaves of you , even if he spends all your money , even if he catches you in a trap , even if he is proud of himself , even if he slaps you in the face . * I am ashamed , but I must say that we were too weak to be like that ! Anything that others want to be proud of , I can talk about too . And yet it is really foolish to do so . * Are they Hebrew people ? So am I . Are they Israels people ? So am I . Is Abraham their father ? He is mine too . * Are they workers for Christ ? (I talk like one who is not in his right mind .) I am a better worker . I have worked much harder . I have been in prison more often . I have been beaten many , many times . Often I have almost died . * The Jewish leaders five times gave me thirty nine strikes with the rope . * Three times people beat me with sticks , and once they threw rocks at me . Three times I was in a boat when it broke in the sea . I have been in the water all one night and day . * I have travelled much . I have crossed bad rivers . I have gone where men might steal my things . The Jews and those who are not Jews have troubled me . I have been in hard places in the city . I have had hard times in the desert . I have had hard times on the water . I have had hard times among those who should have been my brothers and were not . * I have worked hard . I have been tired out . I have often had no sleep at night . I have been hungry and thirsty . I have often had nothing to eat . I have been cold and did not have enough clothes to wear . * Beside all other things , my heart is troubled about the churches . That is a load I carry every day . * When anyone is weak , I am weak too . When anyone is made to fall away , my heart burns within me * If I must talk about myself , I will talk about the things that show I am weak . * God knows I am not telling lies . He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and he is to be praised forever . 32In the city of Damascus a man ruled for king Aretas . He had the gates of the city guarded because he wanted to catch me . * But I sat in a basket . Then it was put out through a window in the wall and was let down . And so I got away from him . * missing fehlt /missing

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