CHAPTER 11
1 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 throughly made manifest among you in all things. 7
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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
mana
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 receiveb 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 and 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 Beside 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.
The
Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems,
Inc.
†
A Greek word occurs that is not directly translated in the King
James Version.
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no man...: Gr. this boasting shall not bo stopped in me
