2 Corinthians 11

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.	1 If only you would put up with a little foolishness from me! Please put up 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.	2 For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God, since I betrothed you to one husband to 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.	3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere (and pure) commitment to 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.	4 For if someone comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough.
5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.	5 For I think that I am not in any way inferior to these "superapostles."
6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.	6 Even if I am untrained in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; in every way we have made this plain to 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?	7 Did I make a mistake when I humbled myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.	8 I plundered other churches by accepting from them in order to minister to you.
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.	9 And when I was with you and in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.	10 By the truth of Christ in me, this boast of mine shall not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.	11 And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
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.	12 And what I do I will continue to do, in order to end this pretext of those who seek a pretext for being regarded as we are in the mission of which they boast.
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.	13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, who masquerade as apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.	14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as 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.	15 So it is not strange that his ministers also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
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.	16 I repeat, no one should consider me foolish; but if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.	17 What I am saying I am not saying according to the Lord but as in foolishness, in this boastful state.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.	18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.
19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.	19 For you gladly put up with fools, since you are wise yourselves.
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.	20 For you put up with it if someone enslaves you, or devours you, or gets the better of you, or puts on airs, or slaps you in 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.	21 To my shame I say that we were too weak! But what anyone dares to boast of (I am speaking in foolishness) I also dare.
22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.	22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants 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.	23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I am talking like an insane person.) I am still more, with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, far worse beatings, and numerous brushes with death.
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.	24 Five times at the hands of the Jews I received forty lashes minus 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;	25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, I passed a night and a day on 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;	26 on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own race, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, dangers among false brothers;
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.	27 in toil and hardship, through many sleepless nights, through hunger and thirst, through frequent fastings, through cold and exposure.
28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.	28 And apart from these things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?	29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led to sin, and I am not indignant?
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.	30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.	31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows, he who is blessed forever, that I do not lie.
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:	32 At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus, in order to seize me,
33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.	33 but I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.