2 Corinthians 11
About 2 Corinthians 2 Corinthians is Paul's personal letter about ministry, weakness, comfort in suffering and generosity.
1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.Selected2 Corinthians 11:1Ask
2For 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.Selected2 Corinthians 11:2Ask
3But 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.Selected2 Corinthians 11:3Ask
4For 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.Selected2 Corinthians 11:4Ask
5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.Selected2 Corinthians 11:5Ask
6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.Selected2 Corinthians 11:6Ask
7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?Selected2 Corinthians 11:7Ask
8I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.Selected2 Corinthians 11:8Ask
9And 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.Selected2 Corinthians 11:9Ask
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.Selected2 Corinthians 11:10Ask
11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.Selected2 Corinthians 11:11Ask
12But 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.Selected2 Corinthians 11:12Ask
13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.Selected2 Corinthians 11:13Ask
14And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.Selected2 Corinthians 11:14Ask
15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.Selected2 Corinthians 11:15Ask
16I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.Selected2 Corinthians 11:16Ask
17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.Selected2 Corinthians 11:17Ask
18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.Selected2 Corinthians 11:18Ask
19For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.Selected2 Corinthians 11:19Ask
20For 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.Selected2 Corinthians 11:20Ask
21I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.Selected2 Corinthians 11:21Ask
22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.Selected2 Corinthians 11:22Ask
23Are 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.Selected2 Corinthians 11:23Ask
24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.Selected2 Corinthians 11:24Ask
25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;Selected2 Corinthians 11:25Ask
26In 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;Selected2 Corinthians 11:26Ask
27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.Selected2 Corinthians 11:27Ask
28Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.Selected2 Corinthians 11:28Ask
29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?Selected2 Corinthians 11:29Ask
30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.Selected2 Corinthians 11:30Ask
31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.Selected2 Corinthians 11:31Ask
32In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:Selected2 Corinthians 11:32Ask
33And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.Selected2 Corinthians 11:33Ask
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