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2 Corinthians Chapter 11|#11 Would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly: And indeed bear with me.#22 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.#23 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.#24 For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we do not have preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you do not have received, or another gospel, which you do not have accepted, you might well bear with him.#25 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very best apostles.#26 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly revealed among you in all things.|*27 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?#28 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.#29 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no one: For which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: And in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will I keep myself.#210 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.#211 Therefore? Because I love you not? God knows.|*212 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.#213 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.#214 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.#215 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.|*216 I say again, Let no one think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.#217 Which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.#218 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.#219 For you suffer fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise.#220 For 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 presence.|*221 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. However whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.#222 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.#223 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 often.#224 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.#225 Three times was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, three times I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;#226 In journeyings 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 brethren;#227 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.|*228 Beside those things that are without, which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.#229 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not?#230 If I necessary glory, I will glory of the things which concern my infirmities.#231 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for always, knows that I do not lie to.#232 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:#233 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.