2 Corinthians 11:2

Paul Defends His Apostleship

¹ I WISH ye would bear with me a little in my foolishness, yea indeed bear with me. ² For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy; for I have espoused you to one husband, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ. ³ But I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which belongs to Christ.

With God

Christ

Messiah

Colossians 1:28

whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

John 3:29

It is the bridegroom, who possesses the bride: and the friend of the bridegroom, standing by and hearing him, rejoiceth exceedingly at the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

Romans 7:4

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye might be for another, who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit for God.

1 Corinthians 4:15

For though ye may have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus through the Gospel I have begotten you.

2 Corinthians 4:14

knowing that he who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ, will raise up us also through Jesus, and present us together with you.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid for you, lest haply I have bestowed on you labour in vain.

Galatians 4:17-19

They affect zeal for you, not honourably; but they wish to exclude us, that you may be zealously attached to them.

Ephesians 5:26-27

that he might sanctify it, purifying it in the laver of water by the word,

Philippians 1:8

For God is my witness, how earnestly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

as ye know how [we treated] every one of you, as a father doth his children, exhorting you, and admonishing, and conjuring you,