[2 Corinthians 11]

 

             ^11:1 I wish-that you^° were tolerating me in a little foolishness, but even as you^° are tolerating other things from me. ^11:2 For^* I am jealous over you^° with the jealousy of God; for^* I espoused you^° to one husband, to present you^° as a pure virgin to the Christ. ^11:3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your^° minds might be corrupted away from the clarity, the one which is in the Christ. ^11:4 For^* if he who indeed comes, is preaching another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you^° receive a different spirit, which you^° have not received or a different good-news, which you^° have not accepted, you^° were tolerating him well. ^11:5 For^* I reason to have come-short in nothing compared to the preeminent apostles. ^11:6 But even if I am unskilled in my speech, but I am not in the knowledge of God! But, we made this knowledge manifest in everything to you^° in all things. ^11:7 Or did I practice some sin in humbling myself in-order-that you^° might be exalted, because I proclaimed freely the good-news of God to you^°? ^11:8 I plundered other congregations^* when I took compensation from them for your^° service. ^11:9 And being present^* with you^° and though I was lacking, I encumbered no one; for^* the brethren who came from Macedonia, replenished my lack of things and I kept and will be keeping myself not burdensome to you^° in everything. ^11:10 The truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting will not be sealed up in me in the districts of Achaia. ^11:11 Why? Because I do not love^* you^°? God knows I do. ^11:12 But what I am doing^*, I will also continue to be doing^* it, in-order-that I may cut off the starting-point from the ones wishing for a starting-point in-order-that they may be found just-as we in what they are boasting. ^11:13 For^* such men are false^* apostles, workers of treachery, shaping themselves into apostles of Christ. ^11:14 And it is not a marvelous thing; for^* even the Adversary himself shapes himself into a messenger of light. ^11:15 Therefore, it is no great thing if his servants are also shaped like servants of righteousness, whose end will be according-to their works.

 

             ^11:16 I say again, not anyone should think me to be foolish; otherwise (even if as foolish), accept^° me in-order-that I may also boast in a little something. ^11:17 What I speak in this firmness of boasting, I do not speak according-to the Lord, but as in foolishness. ^11:18 Since many are boasting according-to the flesh, I will also be boasting. ^11:19 For^* you^° are tolerating the foolish gladly, being so prudent. ^11:20 For^* you^° tolerate it, if anyone is enslaving you^°, if anyone is devouring you^°, if anyone is taking from you^°, if anyone is lifting himself up, if anyone is smacking you^° in the face. ^11:21 I speak according-to our dishonor, how, We were so weak. But in whatever anyone may be daring (I speak in foolishness), I am also daring. ^11:22 Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they the seed of Abraham? I also. ^11:23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak, as if having insanity) I am beyond them: in labors even-more, in lashes surpassingly, in prisons even-more, in deaths often. ^11:24 Five-times, I received forty lashes beside {i.e., minus} one under the Jews. ^11:25 I was lashed with rods three-times. I was stoned once. I was shipwrecked three-times. I have spent a night and a day in the depth of the sea; ^11:26 often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils by false^* brethren; ^11:27 in labor and hardship, often in sleeplessnesses, in famine and thirst, often in fasts, in cold and nakedness. ^11:28 Separate from the things which are outside, my every day pressure, the anxiety of all the congregations^*.

               ^11:29 Who is weak and I am not weak? Who is offended and I am not inflamed? ^11:30 If it is essential for me to boast, I will be boasting in the things which are from my weakness. ^11:31 Gracious^* is the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is forever and knows that I am not lying. ^11:32 In Damascus the Ethnarch of Aretas, the king, was guarding the Damascenes’ city, wishing to arrest me; ^11:33 and I was lowered through a window in a hamper and through the wall and fled his hands.