112 Corinthians 11

1Would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.Select 2 Corinthians 11:1

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.Select 2 Corinthians 11:2

3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.Select 2 Corinthians 11:3

4For 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.Select 2 Corinthians 11:4

5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very most chief apostles.Select 2 Corinthians 11:5

6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.Select 2 Corinthians 11:6

7Have I committed an offense in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?Select 2 Corinthians 11:7

8I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.Select 2 Corinthians 11:8

9And 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 to you, and so will I keep myself.Select 2 Corinthians 11:9

10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.Select 2 Corinthians 11:10

11Why? because I love you not? God knows.Select 2 Corinthians 11:11

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.Select 2 Corinthians 11:12

13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.Select 2 Corinthians 11:13

14And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.Select 2 Corinthians 11:14

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.Select 2 Corinthians 11:15

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.Select 2 Corinthians 11:16

17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.Select 2 Corinthians 11:17

18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.Select 2 Corinthians 11:18

19For you suffer fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise.Select 2 Corinthians 11:19

20For 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.Select 2 Corinthians 11:20

21I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. However, when ever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.Select 2 Corinthians 11:21

22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.Select 2 Corinthians 11:22

23Are 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 oft.Select 2 Corinthians 11:23

24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.Select 2 Corinthians 11:24

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;Select 2 Corinthians 11:25

26In journeys 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;Select 2 Corinthians 11:26

27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.Select 2 Corinthians 11:27

28Beside those things that are without, that which comes on me daily, the care of all the churches.Select 2 Corinthians 11:28

29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?Select 2 Corinthians 11:29

30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern my infirmities.Select 2 Corinthians 11:30

31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for ever more, knows that I lie not.Select 2 Corinthians 11:31

32In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:Select 2 Corinthians 11:32

33And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.Select 2 Corinthians 11:33