2Corinthians:11
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Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly :
and indeed bear with me .
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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 .
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But I fear ,
lest by any means ,
as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty ,
so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ .
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For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus ,
whom we have not preached ,
or if ye receive another spirit ,
which ye have not received ,
or another gospel ,
which ye have not accepted ,
ye might well bear with him .
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For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles .
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But though I be rude in speech ,
yet not in knowledge ;
but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things .
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Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted ,
because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely ?
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I robbed other churches ,
taking wages of them ,
to do you service .
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And when I was present with you ,
and wanted ,
I was chargeable to no man :
for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied :
and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you ,
and so will I keep myself .
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As the truth of Christ is in me ,
no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia .
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Wherefore ?
because I love you not ?
God knoweth .
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But what I do ,
that I will do ,
that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion ;
that wherein they glory ,
they may be found even as we .
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For such are false apostles ,
deceitful workers ,
transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ .
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And no marvel ;
for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light .
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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 .
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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 .
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That which I speak ,
I speak it not after the Lord ,
but as it were foolishly ,
in this confidence of boasting .
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Seeing that many glory after the flesh ,
I will glory also .
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For ye suffer fools gladly ,
seeing ye yourselves are wise .
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For ye 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 .
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I speak as concerning reproach ,
as though we had been weak .
Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold , (
I speak foolishly ,)
I am bold also .
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Are they Hebrews ?
so am I .
Are they Israelites ?
so am I .
Are they the seed of Abraham ?
so am I .
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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 oft .
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Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one .
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Thrice was I beaten with rods ,
once was I stoned ,
thrice I suffered shipwreck ,
a night and a day I have been in the deep ;
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In journeyings often ,
in perils of waters ,
in perils of robbers ,
in perils by mine 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 brethren ;
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In weariness and painfulness ,
in watchings often ,
in hunger and thirst ,
in fastings often ,
in cold and nakedness .
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Beside those things that are without ,
that which cometh upon me daily ,
the care of all the churches .
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Who is weak ,
and I am not weak ?
who is offended ,
and I burn not ?
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If I must needs glory ,
I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities .
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The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ,
which is blessed for evermore ,
knoweth that I lie not .
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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison ,
desirous to apprehend me :
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And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall ,
and escaped his hands .