112 Corinthians 11

CHAP. XI. / 1 Out of his ielousie ouer the Corinthians, who seemed to make more account of the false apostles, then of him, he entreth into a forced commendation of himselfe, 5 of his equalitie with t

1Would to God ye could beare with me a little in my folly, & indeed beare with me.Select 2 Corinthians 11:1

2For I am iealous ouer you with godly iealousy, for I haue 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 meanes, as the Serpent beguiled Eue through his subtilty, so your mindes should bee corrupted from the simplicitie that is in Christ.Select 2 Corinthians 11:3

4For if he that commeth preacheth another Iesus, whome wee haue not preached, or if yee receiue another spirit, which ye haue not receiued, or another Gospel, which ye haue not accepted, yee might well beare with him.Select 2 Corinthians 11:4

5For I suppose I was not a whit behinde the very chiefest Apostles.Select 2 Corinthians 11:5

6But though I be rude in speach, yet not in knowledge; but we haue bene throughly made manifest among you in all things.Select 2 Corinthians 11:6

7Haue I committed an offence in abasing my selfe, that ye might be exalted, because I haue preached to you the Gospel of God freely?Select 2 Corinthians 11:7

8I robbed other Churches, taking wages of them, to doe you seruice.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 mee, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied, and in all things I haue kept my selfe from being burdensome to you, and so will I keepe my selfe.Select 2 Corinthians 11:9

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

11Wherefore? because I loue you not? God knoweth.Select 2 Corinthians 11:11

12But what I doe, that I wil doe, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion, that wherein they glory, they may be found euen as we.Select 2 Corinthians 11:12

13For such are false Apostles, deceitfull workers, transforming themselues into the Apostles of Christ.Select 2 Corinthians 11:13

14And no marueile, for Sathan himselfe is transformed into an Angel of light.Select 2 Corinthians 11:14

15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also bee transformed as the ministers of righteousnesse, whose end shall be according to their workes.Select 2 Corinthians 11:15

16I say againe, Let no man thinke mee a foole; if otherwise, yet as a foole receiue me, that I may boast my selfe a little.Select 2 Corinthians 11:16

17That which I speake, I speake 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 ye suffer fooles gladly, seeing ye your selues are wise.Select 2 Corinthians 11:19

20For ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man deuoure you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himselfe, if a man smite you on the face.Select 2 Corinthians 11:20

21I speake as concerning reproch, as though we had bene weak: howbeit wherein soeuer any is bold, I speake foolishly, I am bold also.Select 2 Corinthians 11:21

22Are they Hebrewes? 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 speake as a foole, I am more: in labors more abundant: in stripes aboue measure: in prisons more frequent: in deaths oft.Select 2 Corinthians 11:23

24Of the Iewes fiue times receiued I forty stripes saue one.Select 2 Corinthians 11:24

25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned: thrice I suffered shipwracke: a night and a day I haue bene in the deepe.Select 2 Corinthians 11:25

26In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my owne countreymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the citie, in perils in the wildernesse, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren,Select 2 Corinthians 11:26

27In wearinesse and painfulnesse, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakednes.Select 2 Corinthians 11:27

28Besides those things that are without, that which cometh vpon me dayly, the care of all the Churches.Select 2 Corinthians 11:28

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

30If I must needes glory, I will glory of the things which concerne mine infirmities.Select 2 Corinthians 11:30

31The God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, which is blessed for euermore, knoweth that I lie not.Select 2 Corinthians 11:31

32In Damascus the gouernor vnder Aretas the King, kept the citie with a garison, desirous to apprehend mee.Select 2 Corinthians 11:32

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