2 Corinthians 11 — DRA
11Verse 1Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly: but do bear with me.Verse 2For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.Verse 3But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted, and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.Verse 4For if he that cometh preacheth another Christ, whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, whom you have not received; or another gospel which you have not received; you might well bear with him.Verse 5For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles.Verse 6For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in all things we have been made manifest to you.Verse 7Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself, that you might be exalted? Because I preached unto you the gospel of God freely?Verse 8I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your ministry.Verse 9And, when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you, and so I will keep myself.Verse 10The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be broken off in me in the regions of Achaia.Verse 11Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.Verse 12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them that desire occasion, that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.Verse 13For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.Verse 14And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light.Verse 15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works.Verse 16I say again, (let no man think me to be foolish, otherwise take me as one foolish, that I also may glory a little.)Verse 17That which I speak, I speak not according to God, but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.Verse 18Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.Verse 19For you gladly suffer the foolish; whereas yourselves are wise.Verse 20For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face.Verse 21I speak according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.Verse 22They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I. They are the seed of Abraham: so am I.Verse 23They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise). I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.Verse 24Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes, save one.Verse 25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea.Verse 26In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren.Verse 27In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.Verse 28Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches.Verse 29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire?Verse 30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my infirmity.Verse 31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not.Verse 32At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me.Verse 33And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and so escaped his hands.