Read Bible Book Of 2 Corinthians Chapter 11 In Online
1 - I Hope You Will Put Up With A Little Of My Foolishness; But You Are Already Doing That.
2 - I Am Jealous For You With A Godly Jealousy. I Promised You To One Husband, To Christ, So That I Might Present You As A Pure Virgin To Him.
3 - But I Am Afraid That Just As Eve Was Deceived By The Serpent's Cunning, Your Minds May Somehow Be Led Astray From Your Sincere And Pure Devotion To Christ.
4 - For If Someone Comes To You And Preaches A Jesus Other Than The Jesus 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 Easily Enough.
5 - But I Do Not Think I Am In The Least Inferior To Those "Super-apostles."
6 - I May Not Be A Trained Speaker, But I Do Have Knowledge. We Have Made This Perfectly Clear To You In Every Way.
7 - Was It A Sin For Me To Lower Myself In Order To Elevate You By Preaching The Gospel Of God To You Free Of Charge?
8 - I Robbed Other Churches By Receiving Support From Them So As To Serve You.
9 - And When I Was With You And Needed Something, I Was Not A Burden To Anyone, For The Brothers Who Came From Macedonia Supplied What I Needed. I Have Kept Myself From Being A Burden To You In Any Way, And Will Continue To Do So.
10 - As Surely As The Truth Of Christ Is In Me, Nobody In The Regions Of Achaia Will Stop This Boasting Of Mine.
11 - Why? Because I Do Not Love You? God Knows I Do!
12 - And I Will Keep On Doing What I Am Doing In Order To Cut The Ground From Under Those Who Want An Opportunity To Be Considered Equal With Us In The Things They Boast About.
13 - For Such Men Are False Apostles, Deceitful Workmen, Masquerading As Apostles Of Christ.
14 - And No Wonder, For Satan Himself Masquerades As An Angel Of Light.
15 - It Is Not Surprising, Then, If His Servants Masquerade As Servants Of Righteousness. Their End Will Be What Their Actions Deserve.
16 - I Repeat: Let No One Take Me For A Fool. But If You Do, Then Receive Me Just As You Would A Fool, So That I May Do A Little Boasting.
17 - In This Self-confident Boasting I Am Not Talking As The Lord Would, But As A Fool.
18 - Since Many Are Boasting In The Way The World Does, I Too Will Boast.
19 - You Gladly Put Up With Fools Since You Are So Wise!
20 - In Fact, You Even Put Up With Anyone Who Enslaves You Or Exploits You Or Takes Advantage Of You Or Pushes Himself Forward Or Slaps You In The Face.
21 - To My Shame I Admit That We Were Too Weak For That!
22 - What Anyone Else Dares To Boast About--i Am Speaking As A Fool--i Also Dare To Boast About. Are They Hebrews? So Am I. Are They Israelites? So Am I. Are They Abraham's Descendants? So Am I.
23 - Are They Servants Of Christ? (I Am Out Of My Mind To Talk Like This.) I Am More. I Have Worked Much Harder, Been In Prison More Frequently, Been Flogged More Severely, And Been Exposed To Death Again And Again.
24 - Five Times I Received From The Jews The Forty Lashes Minus One.
25 - Three Times I Was Beaten With Rods, Once I Was Stoned, Three Times I Was Shipwrecked, I Spent A Night And A Day In The Open Sea,
26 - I Have Been Constantly On The Move. I Have Been In Danger From Rivers, In Danger From Bandits, In Danger From My Own Countrymen, In Danger From Gentiles; In Danger In The City, In Danger In The Country, In Danger At Sea; And In Danger From False Brothers.
27 - I Have Labored And Toiled And Have Often Gone Without Sleep; I Have Known Hunger And Thirst And Have Often Gone Without Food; I Have Been Cold And Naked.
28 - Besides Everything Else, I Face Daily The Pressure Of My Concern For All The Churches.
29 - Who Is Weak, And I Do Not Feel Weak? Who Is Led Into Sin, And I Do Not Inwardly Burn?
30 - If I Must Boast, I Will Boast Of The Things That Show My Weakness.
31 - The God And Father Of The Lord Jesus, Who Is To Be Praised Forever, Knows That I Am Not Lying.
32 - In Damascus The Governor Under King Aretas Had The City Of The Damascenes Guarded In Order To Arrest Me.
33 - But I Was Lowered In A Basket From A Window In The Wall And Slipped Through His Hands.
