{"book":"2 Corinthians","slug":"2-corinthians","ch":11,"genre":"letter","sub":"2 Corinthians","prev":"2-corinthians/10","next":"2-corinthians/12","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness, but [you are already doing that].","f":[],"h":"Paul and the False Apostles","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present [you] [as] a pure virgin to Christ.","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from [your] simple and pure [devotion] to Christ.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":4,"t":"For if [someone] comes [and] proclaims [a] Jesus other [than the One] we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit [than the One] you received, or a different gospel [than the one] you accepted, you put up with it very easily.","f":[]},{"v":5,"t":"I consider myself in no way inferior to those “ super-apostles.”","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":6,"t":"Although [I am] not a polished speaker, I am certainly not lacking in knowledge. We have made this clear to you in every way possible.","f":[]},{"v":7,"t":"[Was it] a sin [for me] to humble myself in order to exalt you, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":8,"t":"I robbed other churches by accepting [their] support in order to serve you.","f":[]},{"v":9,"t":"And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden [to anyone]; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.","f":[]},{"v":10,"t":"[As surely as the] truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.","f":[]},{"v":11,"t":"Why? Because I do not love you? God knows [I do]!","f":[]},{"v":12,"t":"But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":13,"t":"For such men [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.","f":[]},{"v":14,"t":"And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.","f":[]},{"v":15,"t":"[It is] not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. [Their] end will correspond to their actions.","f":[]},{"v":16,"t":"I repeat: {Let} no one take me for a fool. But if [you do], [then] receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.","f":[],"h":"Paul’s Suffering and Service","style":"reg"},{"v":17,"t":"In this confident boasting [of mine], I am not speaking as [the] Lord {would}, but as a fool.","f":[]},{"v":18,"t":"Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.","f":[]},{"v":19,"t":"For you gladly put up with fools, since you are so wise.","f":[]},{"v":20,"t":"In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you [or] exploits [you] [or] takes advantage [of you] [or] exalts himself [or] strikes you in the face.","f":[]},{"v":21,"t":"To [my] shame I concede that we were too weak [for that]! Speaking as a fool, however, I can [match] what anyone else dares [to boast about].","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"","t":"To [my] shame I concede that we were too weak [for that]!"},{"style":"reg","t":"Speaking as a fool, however, I can [match] what anyone else dares [to boast about]."}],"style":"reg"},{"v":22,"t":"Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.","f":[]},{"v":23,"t":"Are they servants of Christ?( I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.","f":[]},{"v":24,"t":"Five times I received from [the] Jews [the] forty [lashes] minus one.","f":[]},{"v":25,"t":"Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open [sea].","f":[]},{"v":26,"t":"In my frequent journeys, [I have been] in danger from rivers [and] from bandits, in danger from [my] countrymen [and] from [the] Gentiles, in danger in [the] city [and] in [the] country, in danger on [the] sea [and] among false brothers,","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":27,"t":"in labor and toil [and] often without sleep, in hunger and thirst [and] often without food, in cold and exposure.","f":[]},{"v":28,"t":"Apart from these external [trials], I [face] daily the pressure [of my] concern for all the churches.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":29,"t":"Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I {do} not burn with grief?","f":[]},{"v":30,"t":"If I must boast, I will boast [of] the things [that show] my weakness.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":31,"t":"The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.","f":["Or forever blessed"]},{"v":32,"t":"In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.","f":[]},{"v":33,"t":"But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.","f":[]}]}