2 Corinthians 11

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1 If only you would put up with a little foolishness from me! Please put up with me.	1 Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly: but do bear with me.
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.	2 For 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.
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.	3 But 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.
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.	4 For 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.
5 For I think that I am not in any way inferior to these "superapostles."	5 For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles.
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.	6 For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in all things we have been made manifest to you.
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?	7 Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself, that you might be exalted? Because I preached unto you the gospel of God freely?
8 I plundered other churches by accepting from them in order to minister to you.	8 I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your ministry.
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.	9 And, 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.
10 By the truth of Christ in me, this boast of mine shall not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.	10 The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be broken off in me in the regions of Achaia.
11 And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!	11 Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.
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.	12 But 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.
13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, who masquerade as apostles of Christ.	13 For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.	14 And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light.
15 So it is not strange that his ministers also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.	15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works.
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.	16 I say again, (let no man think me to be foolish, otherwise take me as one foolish, that I also may glory a little.)
17 What I am saying I am not saying according to the Lord but as in foolishness, in this boastful state.	17 That which I speak, I speak not according to God, but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.
18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.	18 Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.
19 For you gladly put up with fools, since you are wise yourselves.	19 For you gladly suffer the foolish; whereas yourselves are wise.
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.	20 For 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.
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.	21 I speak according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.	22 They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I. They are the seed of Abraham: so am I.
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.	23 They 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.
24 Five times at the hands of the Jews I received forty lashes minus one.	24 Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes, save one.
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;	25 Thrice 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.
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;	26 In 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.
27 in toil and hardship, through many sleepless nights, through hunger and thirst, through frequent fastings, through cold and exposure.	27 In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28 And apart from these things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches.	28 Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led to sin, and I am not indignant?	29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.	30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my infirmity.
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows, he who is blessed forever, that I do not lie.	31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not.
32 At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus, in order to seize me,	32 At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me.
33 but I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.	33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and so escaped his hands.