2 Corinthians 11 — TNT
11Verse 1Wolde to god ye coulde suffre me a lytell in my folysshnes: yee and I praye you forbeare me.Verse 2For I am gelous over you with godly gelousy. For I coupled you to one man to make you a chaste virgen to Christ.Verse 3But I feare lest as the serpent begyled Eve thorow his sutteltie even so youre wittes shuld be corrupte from the singlenes that is in Christ.Verse 4For if he that commeth preache another Iesus then hym whom we preached: or if ye receave another sprete then that which ye have receaved: other another gospell then that ye have receaved ye myght right wel have bene content.Verse 5I suppose that I was not behynde the chefe apostles.Verse 6Though I be rude in speakynge yet I am not so in knowledge. How be it amonge you we are knowen to the vtmost what we are in all thynges.Verse 7Did I therin synne be cause I submitted my silfe that ye myght be exalted and because I preached to you the gospell of God fre?Verse 8I robbed other congregacions and toke wages of the to do you service with all.Verse 9And when I was present with yov and had nede I was greuous to no man for that which was lackynge vnto me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all thynges I kept my silfe that I shuld not be greveous to you: and so will I kepe my silfe.Verse 10Yf the trueth of Christ be in me this ieioysynge shall not be taken from me in the regions of Achaia.Verse 11Wherfore? Be cause I love you not? God knoweth.Verse 12Neverthe lesse what I doo that will I do to cut awaye occasion from them which desyre occasion that they myght be founde lyke vnto vs in that wherin they reioyce.Verse 13For these falce apostles are disceatefull workers and fassion them selves lyke vnto the apostles of Christ.Verse 14And no marvayle for satan him silfe is chaunged into the fassion of an angell of light.Verse 15Therfore it is no great thynge though his ministers fassion them selves as though they were the ministers of rightewesnes: whose ende shalbe acordynge to their dedes.Verse 16I saye agayne lest eny man thynke that I am folishe: or els even now take me as a fole that I maye bost my silfe a lytell.Verse 17That I speake I speake it not after the wayes of the lorde: but as it were folysshly whill we are now come to bostynge.Verse 18Seynge that many reioyce after the flesshe I will reioyce also.Verse 19For ye suffre foles gladly be cause that ye youre selves are wyse.Verse 20For ye suffre even if a man brynge you into bondage: yf a man devoure: yf a man take: yf a man exalt hym silfe: yf a man smyte you on the face.Verse 21I speake as concernynge rebuke as though we had bene weake. How be it wherin soever eny man dare be bolde (I speake folisshly) I dare be bolde alsoVerse 22They are Ebrues so am I: They are Israelites even so am I. They are the seede of Abraham even so am I.Verse 23They are the ministers of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am moare: In labours moare aboundant: In strypes above measure: In preson more plenteously: In deeth ofte.Verse 24Of the Iewes five tymes receaved I every tyme .xl. strypes saue one.Verse 25Thryse was I beten with roddes. I was once stoned. I suffered thryse shipwracke. Nyght and daye have I bene in the depe of the see.Verse 26In iorneyinge often: In parels of waters: In parels of robbers: In ieoperdies of myne awne nacion: In ieoperdies amonge the hethen. I have bene in parels in cities in parels in wildernes in parels in the see in parels amonge falce brethrenVerse 27in laboure and travayle in watchynge often in honger in thirst in fastynges often in colde and in nakednes.Verse 28And besyde the thynges which outwardly happen vnto me I am combred dayly and do care for all congregacions.Verse 29Who is sicke and I am not sicke? Who is hurte in the fayth and my hert burneth not?Verse 30Yf I must nedes reioyce I will reioyce of myne infirmities.Verse 31The God and father of oure lorde Iesus Christ which is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lye notVerse 32In the citie of Damascon the governer of the people vnder kynge Aretas layde watche in the citie of the Damasces and wolde have caught meVerse 33and at a wyndowe was I let doune in a basket thorowe the wall and so scaped his hondes.