Thematic Bible
2 Corinthians 11:1 (show verse)
I wish you would bear a little with my folly; and indeed do bear with me.
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2 Corinthians 11:2 (show verse)
For I am zealous for you with a godly zeal, for I joined you, a chaste virgin, to one husband, to present to Christ;
2 Corinthians 11:3 (show verse)
but I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve with his craftiness, so also your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:4 (show verse)
For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, you might well bear it;
2 Corinthians 11:5 (show verse)
for I judge that I am not behind the chief of the apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:6 (show verse)
And even if I am rude in speech, I certainly am not in knowledge, but we have been made fully manifest to you in all things.
2 Corinthians 11:7 (show verse)
Have I done wrong to humble myself that you might be exalted, that I preached the gospel of God to you gratuitously?
2 Corinthians 11:8 (show verse)
I robbed other churches taking wages to serve you;
2 Corinthians 11:9 (show verse)
and when I was with you and was in want, I was burdensome to no one; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied beforehand my need; and in every thing I kept myself without being burdensome to you, and will keep myself so.
2 Corinthians 11:10 (show verse)
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting in respect to myself shall not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 11:11 (show verse)
Why? Because I love you not? God knows.
2 Corinthians 11:12 (show verse)
But what I do I also will do, that I may take away an occasion from those who wish an occasion, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we are.
2 Corinthians 11:13 (show verse)
For such false apostles, deceitful laborers, transform themselves into apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:14 (show verse)
And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:15 (show verse)
It is no great thing, therefore, if his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
2 Corinthians 11:16 (show verse)
Again, I say let no one think me to be foolish; but if otherwise, even as a foolish man bear with me that I may boast a little.
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2 Corinthians 11:17 (show verse)
What I say, I do not say according to the Lord, but as it were in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
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2 Corinthians 11:18 (show verse)
Since many boast of the flesh, I also will boast.
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2 Corinthians 11:19 (show verse)
You endure fools patiently being wise;
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2 Corinthians 11:20 (show verse)
for you endure it if any one reduces you to servitude, if any one devours you, if any one takes from you, if any one exalts himself against you, if any one beats you in the face.
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2 Corinthians 11:21 (show verse)
I speak of reproach as if we were weak; wherein any one is bold, I speak foolishly, I am bold also.
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2 Corinthians 11:22 (show verse)
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the posterity of Abraham? so am I.
2 Corinthians 11:23 (show verse)
Are they ministers of Christ? I speak foolishly, I am more; in labors most abundant, in stripes above measure, in imprisonments most abundant, in deaths often;
2 Corinthians 11:24 (show verse)
five times I received of the Jews forty [stripes] lacking one,
2 Corinthians 11:25 (show verse)
thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice have I been shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in the deep;
2 Corinthians 11:26 (show verse)
often on journeys, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] race, in dangers from gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers,
2 Corinthians 11:27 (show verse)
in labor and weariness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 11:28 (show verse)
Besides things without, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
2 Corinthians 11:29 (show verse)
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I am not displeased?
2 Corinthians 11:30 (show verse)
If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of my infirmities.
2 Corinthians 11:31 (show verse)
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I lie not.
2 Corinthians 11:32 (show verse)
In Damascus, the ethnarch, when Aretas was king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, desiring to take me,
2 Corinthians 11:33 (show verse)
and I was let down in a rope-basket, by a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.