2 Corinthians 11:1-15 - Paul Defends His Apostleship

¹ I would ye hold me up a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. ² For I am zealous of you with the zeal of God: for I fitted you to one husband, to present a pure virgin to Christ. ³ And I am afraid lest, as the serpent completely deceived Eve in his craft, so your thoughts be corrupted from the simplicity which in Christ. ⁴ For if he coming proclaim another Jesus, which I proclaimed not, or ye receive another spirit, which ye received not, or other good news, which ye received not, ye have held up well.

⁵ For I reckon myself to be nothing greatly inferior to the sent. ⁶ And, if also ignorant in the word, but not in knowledge; but in every thing, we having been made manifest in all for you. ⁷ Or did I a sin, humbling myself that ye might be exalted, because I announced to you the good news of God gratuitously? ⁸ I stripped other churches, having received pay, for your service. ⁹ And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep. ¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me, for this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Wherefore? because I love you not? God knows.

¹² And what I do, and I will do, that I shall not cut off the occasion of those wishing the occasion; that in what they boast, they be found as also we. ¹³ For such the falsely sent, crafty workers, being transformed into the sent of Christ. ¹⁴ And not wonderful; for Satan himself is transformed into a messenger of light. ¹⁵ No great thing therefore if also his servants are transformed as servants of justice; whose end shall be according to their works.