2 Corinthians 11 : King James Version

11 1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my
folly: and indeed bear with me. 2For 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. 3But
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. 4For 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. 5For I suppose I
was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 6But
though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been
throughly made manifest among you in all things. 7Have I
committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted,
because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 8I
robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9And 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. 10As
the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting
in the regions of Achaia. 11Wherefore? because I love you
not? God knoweth. 12But 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. 13For such are
false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the
apostles of Christ. 14And no marvel; for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light. 15Therefore it is no
great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of
righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 16I
say again, let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool
receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17That
which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were
foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18Seeing that
many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19For ye
suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20For
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. 21I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had
been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I
am bold also. 22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they
Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 23Are
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. 24Of the Jews five times received I forty
stripes save one. 25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once
was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have
been in the deep; 26In 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;
27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in
hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28Beside
those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the
care of all the churches. 29Who is weak, and I am not
weak? who is offended, and I burn not? 30If I must needs
glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is
blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. 32In
Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the
damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 33And
through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped
his hands.