2 Corinthians 11
11:1I would you endure me a little folly; or even endure me.
11:2For I am zealous for you with zeal of God. For I suited you to one husband as a pure virgin to present to the Christ.
11:3But I fear, perhaps as the serpent cheated Eve in his cleverness, so your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity, of the one in the Christ.
11:4For if indeed the one coming to proclaim another Jesus whom we did not proclaim; or you received another spirit which you did not receive from us; or another good news which you did not receive -- well you withhold from it.
11:5For I consider in nothing to be lacking of the more exceeding apostles.
11:6And if even I be a common person in the communication, but I am not in the knowledge; but I am in every way making manifest in all things to you.
11:7Or did I commit sin, humbling myself, that you should be exalted? that without charge I announced good news the good news of God to you.
11:8Other assemblies I robbed, taking a ration for your service;
11:9and being at hand with you, and being lacking, I was not lax of anyone. For my deficiency the brethren filled up in addition, having come from Macedonia; and in everything I kept myself easy to you, and I will keep it so.
11:10It is the truth of Christ in me, that this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia.
11:11Why? because I do not love you? God knows.
11:12But what I do, also I shall do, that I should cut off the opportunity of the ones wanting an opportunity, that in what they boast, they should be found as also we.
11:13For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, changing appearance into apostles of Christ.
11:14For it is not surprising for Satan himself to change appearance into an angel of light.
11:15It is not a great thing then if even his servants change appearance as servants of righteousness; whom the end will be according to their works.
11:16Again I say, no one should assume me to be a fool; but if not indeed, if as a fool receive me! that some a little I also should boast.
11:17What I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this essence of boasting.
11:18Since many boast according to the flesh, also I shall boast.
11:19For with pleasure you endure fools, being practical.
11:20For you endure if anyone reduce you to slavery, if anyone devours, if anyone takes, if anyone lifts up himself, if anyone flays you in the face.
11:21According to dishonor I speak, as that we were weak. But in which ever anyone should be daring, (in folly I speak) I also am daring.
11:22They are Hebrews, I also. They are Israelites, I also. They are seed of Abraham, I also.
11:23They are servants of Christ, (ranting I speak), above measure, I also in toils -- more exceedingly; in beatings -- above measure; in imprisonments -- more exceedingly; in deaths -- often.
11:24By the Jews five times I received forty strokes save one.
11:25Three times I was beaten with a rod; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; night and day in the deep I have spent;
11:26in journeys often; in dangers of rivers; in dangers of robbers; in dangers from my race; in dangers from nations; in dangers in the city; in dangers in desolate places; in dangers in the sea; in dangers among false brethren;
11:27in toil and trouble; in sleeplessnesses often; in hunger and thirst; in fastings often; in chilliness and nakedness.
11:28Separate from the things outwardly, there is the conspiring against me in the daily anxiety concerning all the assemblies.
11:29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I am not on fire?
11:30If I must boast, I will boast in the things of my weakness.
11:31The God and father of the Lord Jesus Christ knows, the one being blessed into the eons, that I do not lie.
11:32In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, wanting to lay hold of me;
11:33and through a window in a cord basket I was let down through the wall, and I fled from his hands.