2 Corinthians 11

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW JERUSALEM
1 I wish that you would endure a small amount of my foolishness, so as to bear with me.	1 I wish you would put up with a little foolishness from me -- not that you don't do this already.
2 For I am jealous toward you, with the jealousy of God. And I have espoused you to one husband, offering you as a chaste virgin to Christ.	2 The jealousy that I feel for you is, you see, God's own jealousy: I gave you all in marriage to a singlehusband, a virgin pure for presentation to Christ.
3 But I am afraid lest, as the serpent led astray Eve by his cleverness, so your minds might be corrupted and might fall away from the simplicity which is in Christ.	3 But I am afraid that, just as the snake with his cunning seduced Eve, your minds may be led astrayfrom single-minded devotion to Christ.
4 For if anyone arrives preaching another Christ, one whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, one whom you have not received; or another Gospel, one which you have not been given: you might permit him to guide you.	4 Because any chance comer has only to preach a Jesus other than the one we preached, or you haveonly to receive a spirit different from the one you received, or a gospel different from the one you accepted -- andyou put up with that only too wil ingly.
5 For I consider that I have done nothing less than the great Apostles.	5 Now, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to the super-apostles.
6 For although I may be unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But, in all things, we have been made manifest to you.	6 Even if there is something lacking in my public speaking, this is not the case with my knowledge, aswe have openly shown to you at al times and before everyone.
7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you would be exalted? For I preached the Gospel of God to you freely.	7 Have I done wrong, then, humbling myself so that you might be raised up, by preaching the gospel ofGod to you for nothing?
8 I have taken from other churches, receiving a stipend from them to the benefit of your ministry.	8 I was robbing other churches, taking wages from them in order to work for you.
9 And when I was with you and in need, I was burdensome to no one. For the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied whatever was lacking to me. And in all things, I have kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.	9 When I was with you and needed money, I was no burden to anybody, for the brothers fromMacedonia brought me as much as I needed when they came; I have always been careful not to let myself be aburden to you in any way, and I shall continue to be so.
10 The truth of Christ is in me, and so this glorying shall not be broken away from me in the regions of Achaia.	10 And as Christ's truth is in me, this boast of mine is not going to be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
11 Why so? Is it because I do not love you? God knows I do.	11 Why should it be? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do.
12 But what I am doing, I will continue to do, so that I may take away an opportunity from those who desire an opportunity by which they may glory, so as to be considered to be like us.	12 I wil go on acting as I do at present, to cut the ground from under the feet of those who are lookingfor a chance to be proved my equals in grounds for boasting.
13 For false apostles, such as these deceitful workers, are presenting themselves as if they were Apostles of Christ.	13 These people are counterfeit apostles, dishonest workers disguising themselves as apostles ofChrist.
14 And no wonder, for even Satan presents himself as if he were an Angel of light.	14 There is nothing astonishing in this; even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
15 Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers present themselves as if they were ministers of justice, for their end shall be according to their works.	15 It is nothing extraordinary, then, when his servants disguise themselves as the servants ofuprightness. They wil come to the end appropriate to what they have done.
16 I say again. And let no one consider me to be foolish. Or, at least, accept me as if I were foolish, so that I also may glory a small amount.	16 To repeat: let no one take me for a fool, but if you do, then treat me as a fool, so that I, too, can do alittle boasting.
17 What I am saying is not said according to God, but as if in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.	17 I shal not be fol owing the Lord's way in what I say now, but wil be speaking out of foolishness in theconviction that I have something to boast about.
18 Since so many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.	18 So many people boast on merely human grounds that I shal too.
19 For you freely accept the foolish, though you yourselves claim to be wise.	19 I know how happy you are to put up with fools, being so wise yourselves;
20 For you permit it when someone guides you into servitude, even if he devours you, even if he takes from you, even if he is extolled, even if he strikes you repeatedly on the face.	20 and how you wil still go on putting up with a man who enslaves you, eats up al you possess, keepsyou under his orders and sets himself above you, or even slaps you in the face.
21 I speak according to disgrace, as if we had been weak in this regard. In this matter, (I speak in foolishness) if anyone dares, I dare also.	21 I say it to your shame; perhaps we have been too weak. Whatever bold claims anyone makes -- nowI am talking as a fool -- I can make them too.
22 They are Hebrews; so am I. They are Israelites; so am I. They are the offspring of Abraham; so am I.	22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So amI.
23 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as if I were less wise); more so am I: with many more labors, with numerous imprisonments, with wounds beyond measure, with frequent mortifications.	23 Are they servants of Christ? I speak in utter fol y -- I am too, and more than they are: I have donemore work, I have been in prison more, I have been flogged more severely, many times exposed to death.
24 On five occasions, I received forty stripes, less one, from the Jews.	24 Five times I have been given the thirty-nine lashes by the Jews;
25 Three times, I was beaten with rods. One time, I was stoned. Three times, I was shipwrecked. For a night and a day, I was in the depths of the sea.	25 three times I have been beaten with sticks; once I was stoned; three times I have been shipwrecked,and once I have been in the open sea for a night and a day;
26 I have made frequent journeys, through dangerous waters, in danger of robbers, in danger from my own nation, in danger from the Gentiles, in danger in the city, in danger in the wilderness, in danger in the sea, in danger from false brothers,	26 continual y travelling, I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from brigands, in danger from myown people and in danger from the gentiles, in danger in the towns and in danger in the open country, in dangerat sea and in danger from people masquerading as brothers;
27 with hardships and difficulties, with much vigilance, in hunger and thirst, with frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness,	27 I have worked with unsparing energy, for many nights without sleep; I have been hungry and thirsty,and often altogether without food or drink; I have been cold and lacked clothing.
28 and, in addition to these things, which are external: there is my daily earnestness and solicitude for all the churches.	28 And, besides all the external things, there is, day in day out, the pressure on me of my anxiety for althe churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not being burned?	29 If anyone weakens, I am weakened as wel ; and when anyone is made to fal , I burn in agony myself.
30 If it is necessary to glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weaknesses.	30 If I have to boast, I will boast of al the ways in which I am weak.
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.	31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus -- who is for ever to be blessed -- knows that I am not lying.
32 At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, watched over the city of the Damascenes, so as to apprehend me.	32 When I was in Damascus, the governor who was under King Aretas put guards round Damascus cityto catch me,
33 And, through a window, I was let down along the wall in a basket; and so I escaped his hands.	33 and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and that was how I escaped from hishands.