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2 Corinthians 11

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1 I wish ye could bear with me a little in my folly and indeed bear with me.

1 I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, please put up with me!

2 For I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God, for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to the Christ.

2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.

3 But I fear that as the serpent deceived Eve through his craftiness, so your senses should be corrupted in some way, and ye should fall from the simplicity that is in the Christ.

3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

4 Therefore if anyone comes preaching another Jesus whom we have not preached or if ye receive another spirit from that which ye have received or another gospel from that which ye have accepted, ye bear well with it.

4 For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

5 I reckon that I have not been inferior in any way to those grandiose apostles.

5 I do not think I am in the least inferior to those “super-apostles.”

6 But though I am rude in speech, yet not in knowledge, but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.

6 I may indeed be untrained as a speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way.

7 Have I committed an offence in humbling myself that ye might be exalted because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

7 Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge?

8 I deprived the other congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}, taking wages of them, to do you service.

8 I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so as to serve you.

9 And when I was present with you and had need, I was not a burden to any of you, for that which was lacking to me was supplied by the brethren which came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

9 And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

10 It is the truth of Christ in me that this glory shall not be sealed up unto me in the regions of Achaia.

10 As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, nobody in the regions of Achaia will stop this boasting of mine.

11 Why? because I do not love you? God knows.

11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

12 But what I do, I will continue to do that I may take away the occasion from those who desire it to be found like unto us in that in which they glory.

12 And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.

13 For these false apostles are deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

14 And it is no marvel, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.

14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

16 I say again, Let no one think me a fool if otherwise, receive me as a fool, that I may yet glory a little.

16 I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting.

17 That which I speak, I speak it not according to the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of glory.

17 In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

18 Since many are boasting in the way the world does, I too will boast.

19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

19 You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise!

20 For ye suffer it if anyone brings you into bondage, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes of you, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone smites you on the face.

20 In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face.

21 I speak as concerning the reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit in that in which another is bold, (I speak foolishly), I am bold also.

21 To my shame I admit that we were too weak for that! Whatever anyone else dares to boast about—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast about.

22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham’s descendants? So am I.

23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more, in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again.

24 Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one.

24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned; three times I suffered shipwreck, night and day I have been in the deep;

25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea,

26 in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by those of my nation, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

26 I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers.

27 in labour and travail, in many watches, in hunger and thirst, in many fasts, in cold and nakedness.

27 I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.

28 Beside those things that are without, my daily combat is the welfare of all the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}.

28 Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.

29 Who is sick, and I am not sick? who stumbles, and I burn not?

29 Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn?

30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern my weakness.

30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for evermore, knows that I do not lie.

31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying.

32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me;

32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me.

33 and through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall and escaped his hands.

33 But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.

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