2 CorinthiansChristianityAccepted ScriptureKoine GreekShare2 Corinthians 11Darby - EnglishMoreVersion - 9 availableWorld English BibleKing James VersionAmerican Standard VersionDarby BibleYoung's Literal TranslationWebster BibleGeneva BibleDouay-Rheims ChallonerReina-Valera 1909WEBKJVASVDarbyYLTWebsterGenevaDouayRV1909LanguageEnglishEspañol‹2 Corinthians 12 Corinthians 22 Corinthians 32 Corinthians 42 Corinthians 52 Corinthians 62 Corinthians 72 Corinthians 82 Corinthians 92 Corinthians 102 Corinthians 112 Corinthians 122 Corinthians 13›2 Corinthians 11ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1Would that ye would bear with me [in] a little folly; but indeed bear with me. 2For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy [which is] ofGod; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present [you] a chaste virgin to Christ. 3But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, [so] your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ. 4For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with [it]. 5For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles. 6But if [I am] a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making [the truth] manifest in all things to you. 7Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that ye might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings ofGod? 8I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry towards you. 9And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself. 10[The] truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia. 11Why? because I do not love you?God knows. 12But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing [for] an opportunity, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we. 13For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14And [it is] not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. 15It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 16Again I say, Let not any one think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, receive me then even as a fool, that I also may boast myself some little. 17What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting. 18Since many boast according to flesh, I also will boast. 19For ye bear fools readily, being wise. 20For ye bear if any one bring you into bondage, if any one devour [you], if any one get [your money], if any one exalt himself, if any one beat you on the face. 21I speak as to dishonour, as though we had been weak; but wherein any one is daring, (I speak in folly,) I also am daring. 22Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they seed of Abraham? I also. 23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure [so]; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft. 24From the Jews five times have I received forty [stripes], save one. 25Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep: 26in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from [my own] race, in perils from [the] nations, in perils in [the] city, in perils in [the] desert, in perils on [the] sea, in perils among false brethren; 27in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28Besides those things that are without, the crowd [of cares] pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies. 29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not? 30If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity. 31TheGod and Father of the Lord Jesus knows — he who is blessed for ever — that I do not lie. 32In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me; 33and through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. ‹Previous chapter2 Corinthians 10Next chapter2 Corinthians 12›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Versions2 Corinthians 11 across 9 versionsShow all 9WEB - World English BibleKJV - King James VersionASV - American Standard VersionDarby - Darby BibleYLT - Young's Literal TranslationWebster - Webster BibleGeneva - Geneva BibleDouay - Douay-Rheims ChallonerRV1909 - Reina-Valera 1909Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public Domain