2Corinthians:11

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* Would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly : and indeed bear with me . * For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy : for I have espoused you to one husband , that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ . * But I fear , lest by any means , as the serpent beguiled Eve through his trickery , so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ . * For if he that comes 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 accepted , you might well bear with him . * For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles . * But though I be rude in speech , yet not in knowledge ; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things . * Have I committed an offense in abasing myself that you might be exalted , because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely ? * I robbed other churches , taking wages of them , to do you service . * And when I was present with you , and wanted , I was chargeable to no man : for that which was lacking to me the brothers which came from Macedonia supplied : and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you , and so will I keep myself . * As the truth of Christ is in me , no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia . * Why ? because I love you not ? God knows . * But what I do , that I will do , that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion ; that in which they glory , they may be found just as we . * For such are false apostles , deceitful workers , transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ . * And no marvel ; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light . * Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness ; whose end shall be according to their works . * 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 . * That which I speak , I speak it not after the Lord , but as it were foolishly , in this confidence of boasting . * Seeing that many glory after the flesh , I will glory also . * For you tolerate fools gladly , seeing you yourselves are wise . * For you suffer , if a man bring you into bondage , if a man devour you , if a man take of you , if a man exalt himself , if a man smite you on the face . * I speak as concerning reproach , as though we had been weak . Howbeit in whichsoever any 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 labors more abundant , in stripes above measure , in prisons more frequent , in deaths often . * Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes less one . * Three times was I beaten with rods , once was I stoned , three times I suffered shipwreck , a night and a day I have been in the deep ; * In journeyings often , in perils of waters , in perils of robbers , in perils by my own countrymen , in perils by the heathen , in perils in the city , in perils in the wilderness , in perils in the sea , in perils among false brothers ; * In weariness and painfulness , in watchings often , in hunger and thirst , in fastings often , in cold and nakedness . * Beside those things that are outside , that which comes upon me daily , the care of all the churches . * Who is weak , and I am not weak ? who is offended , and I burn not ? * If I must needs glory , I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities . * The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , which is blessed for evermore , knows that I lie not . * 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 was I let down by the wall , and escaped his hands .

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