II CORINTHIANS CHAPTER XI

WOULD to God ye could bear with me a little 
in my 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 you as 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 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. 
5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the 
very chiefest apostles. 
6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in 
knowledge; but we have been thoroughly 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 of them,
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 things I have kept myself 
from being burdensome unto you, and so will I 
keep myself.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall 
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 are 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 it is 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, Let no 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 it 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 yourselves are 
wise. 
20 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. 
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 am I. Are they Israelites?
so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 
23 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. 
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes
save one.
25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I 
stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night an a 
day I have been in the deep;
26 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;
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings 
often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold 
and nakedness. 
28 Besides those things that are without, that which 
cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 
29 Who is weak, and I am not 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 the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, 
desirous to apprehend me: 
33 And through a window in a basket was I let 
down by the wall, and escaped his hands.