# 2 Corinthians 11 [[2 Corinthians 10|←]] • [[2 Corinthians 12|→]] --- ### 1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in folly: and indeed bear with me. ### 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present a chaste virgin to Christ. ### 3 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. ### 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom not we have preached, or ye receive another spirit, which not ye have received, or another gospel, which not ye have accepted, well ye might with bear ### 5 For I suppose not I was a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. ### 6 But though rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but throughly we have been made manifest among you in all things. ### 7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? ### 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages to do you service. ### 9 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 I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and will I keep ### 10 the truth As shall of Christ is in me, no man stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. ### 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. ### 12 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. ### 13 For such false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. ### 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. ### 15 Therefore no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. ### 16 I say again, no Let man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. ### 17 That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. ### 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. ### 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye are wise. ### 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring into bondage, you if a man devour if a man take if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. ### 21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. ### 22 Are they Hebrews? so I. Are they Israelites? so I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so I. ### 23 Are they ministers of Christ? speak (I as a fool) I more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. ### 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty save one. ### 25 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; ### 26 journeyings often, perils of waters, perils of robbers, perils by countrymen, perils by the heathen, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brethren; ### 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. ### 28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. ### 29 Who is weak, and not I am weak? who is offended, and I burn not? ### 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. ### 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. ### 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept with a garrison, the city the of Damascenes desirous to apprehend me: ### 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.