2Corinthians:11

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* Would that you (note :){+}(:note ) could bear with me in a little foolishness : but indeed you {+} do bear with me . * For I am jealous over you (note :){+}(:note ) with a godly jealousy : for I espoused you {+} to one husband , that I might present you {+} [as ] a pure virgin to Christ . * But I fear , lest by any means , as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness , your (note :){+}(:note ) minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ . * For if someone comes preaching a different Jesus than we preached , or you (note :){+}(:note ) receive a spirit other than you {+} received , or good news other than you {+} accepted , you {+} endure well . * For I reckon that I am not a bit behind the very chiefest apostles . * But though [I am ] unskilled in speaking , yet [I am ] not [unskilled ] in knowledge ; certainly , in every way we have made [this ] manifest to you (note :){+}(:note ) in all things . * Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that you (note :){+}(:note ) might be exalted , because I preached to you {+} the good news of God for nothing ? * I robbed other churches , taking wages to serve you (note :){+}(:note ); * and when I was present with you (note :){+}(:note ) and was in want , I was not a burden on any man ; for the brothers , when they came from Macedonia , supplied the measure of my want ; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you {+}, and [so ] I will keep [myself ]. * As the truth of Christ is in me , no man will stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia . * Why ? Because I do not love you (note :){+}(:note )? God knows . * But what I do , I will continue to do , that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion ; that in what they glory , they may be found even as we . * For such men are false apostles , deceitful workers , fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ . * And no wonder ; for even Satan fashions himself into an angel of light . * It is no great thing therefore if his servants also fashion themselves as servants of righteousness , whose end will be according to their works . * I say again , let no man think me foolish ; but if [you (note :){+}(:note ) do ], yet receive me as foolish , that I also may glory a little . * That which I speak , I don 't speak after the Lord , but as in foolishness , in this confidence of glorying . * Seeing that many glory after the flesh , I will glory also . * For you (note :){+}(:note ) bear with the foolish gladly , being wise [yourselves ]. * For you (note :){+}(:note ) bear with a man , if he brings you {+} into slavery , if he devours you {+}, if he takes you {+} [captive ], if he exalts himself , if he strikes you {+} on the face . * I speak by way of shame , as though we had been weak . Yet in what any is bold (I speak in foolishness ), 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 servants of Christ ? (I speak as one beside himself ) I more ; in labors more abundantly , in prisons more abundantly , in stripes above measure , in deaths often . * Of the Jews five times I received forty [stripes ] less one . * Thrice I was beaten with rods , once I was stoned , thrice I suffered shipwreck , a night and a day I have been in the deep ; * [in ] journeyings often , [in ] perils of rivers , [in ] perils of robbers , [in ] perils from [my ] countrymen , [in ] perils from the Gentiles , [in ] perils in the city , [in ] perils in the wilderness , [in ] perils in the sea , [in ] perils among false brothers ; * [in ] labor and travail , in sleeplessness often , in hunger and thirst , in fasts often , in cold and nakedness . * Besides those things that are outside , there is that which presses on me daily , anxiety for all the churches . * Who is weak , and I am not weak ? Who is caused to stumble , and I do not burn [with distress ]? * If I must surely glory , I will glory of the things that concern my weakness . * The God and Father of the Lord Jesus , he who is blessed forevermore knows that I do not lie . * In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me : * and through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall , and escaped his hands .

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