2Corinthians:11

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* I wish ye could bear with me a little in [my ] folly and indeed bear with me . * For I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God , for I have espoused you to one husband , that I may present [you as ] a chaste virgin to the Christ . * But I fear that as the serpent deceived Eve through his craftiness , so your senses should be corrupted in some way , and ye should fall from the simplicity that is in the Christ . * Therefore if anyone comes preaching another Jesus whom we have not preached or [if ] ye receive another spirit from that which ye have received or another gospel from that which ye have accepted , ye bear well with [it ]. * I reckon that I have not been inferior in any way to those grandiose apostles . * But though [I am ] rude in speech , yet not in knowledge , but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things . * Have I committed an offence in humbling myself that ye might be exalted because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely ? * I deprived the other churches , taking wages [of them ], to do you service . * And when I was present with you and had need , I was not a burden to any [of you ], for that which was lacking to me was supplied by the brethren which came from Macedonia ; and in all [things ] I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you , and [so ] will I keep [myself ]. * It is the truth of Christ in me that this glory shall not be sealed up unto me in the regions of Achaia . * Why ? because I do not love you ? God knows . * But what I do , I will continue to do that I may take away the occasion from those who desire it to be found like unto us in that in which they glory . * For these false apostles are deceitful workers , transforming themselves into apostles of Christ . * And it is no marvel , for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light . * Therefore [it is ] no great thing if his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness , whose end shall be according to their works . * I say again , Let no one think me a fool if otherwise , receive me as a fool , that I may yet glory a little . * That which I speak , I speak [it ] not according to the Lord , but as it were foolishly , in this confidence of glory . * Seeing that many glory after the flesh , I will glory also . * For ye suffer fools gladly , seeing ye [yourselves ] are wise . * For ye suffer it if anyone brings you into bondage , if anyone devours [you ], if anyone takes [of you ], if anyone exalts himself , if anyone smites you on the face . * I speak as concerning the reproach , as though we had been weak . Howbeit in that in which another is bold , (I speak foolishly ), I am bold also . * Are they Hebrews ? so [am ] I . Are they Israelites ? so am I . Are they the seed of Abraham ? so [am ] I . * 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 often . * Of the Jews five times I received forty [stripes ] less one . * Three times I was beaten with rods , once I was stoned ; three times I suffered shipwreck , night and day I have been in the deep ; * [in ] journeyings often , [in ] perils of waters , [in ] perils of robbers , [in ] perils by those of my nation , [in ] perils of the Gentiles , [in ] perils in the city , [in ] perils in the wilderness , [in ] perils in the sea , [in ] perils among false brethren ; * in labour and travail , in many watches , in hunger and thirst , in many fasts , in cold and nakedness . * Beside those things that are without , my daily combat is the welfare of all the churches . * Who is sick , and I am not sick ? who stumbles , and I burn not ? * If I must needs glory , I will glory of the things which concern my weakness . * The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , who is blessed for evermore , knows that I do not lie . * In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison , desirous to apprehend me ; * and through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall and escaped his hands .:

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