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ULT 2COR Chapter 11

11 I wish that you would bear with me in a little bit of foolishness, but you are indeed bearing with me! 2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, for I joined you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds might be corrupted from the sincerity and the purity that are to Christ. 4 For if indeed one coming proclaims another Jesus whom we did not proclaim, or you receive a different spirit which you did not receive or a different gospel which you did not accept, you are bearing with it well!

5 For I consider myself not to fall short of the “super-apostles.” 6 But even if I am untrained in this speech, yet not in this knowledge, but in everything having made this clear to you in all things. 7 Or did I commit a sin, humbling myself so that you yourselves might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without payment? 8 I robbed other churches, having accepted a wage for the ministry to you. 9 And being present with you—and having lacked—I did not burden anyone. For the brothers having come from Macedonia completely met my need, and in everything I kept and will continue to keep myself from being a burden to you. 10 The truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting will not be shut to me in the regions of Achaia. 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

12 But what I do I will also continue to do so that I may cut off the opportunity of the ones desiring an opportunity that in what they are boasting about they may be found just as we also are. 13 For the ones of such kind are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 Therefore, it is no great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

16 I say again: Let no one think me to be foolish. But if not, receive me at least as a fool so that I too may boast a little bit. 17 What I am saying, I am not saying according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this situation of boasting. 18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast. 19 For gladly you bear with the foolish, being wise. 20 For you bear with it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes advantage of you, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone hits you in the face. 21 According to dishonor I speak, namely that we ourselves have been weak! However, in whatever way anyone might be bold—I am speaking in foolishness—I too am bold. 22 Are they Hebrews? I am also. Are they Israelites? I am also. Are they offspring of Abraham? I am also. 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as being insane.) I am more so: more abundantly in hard work, more abundantly in imprisonments, in beatings beyond measure, often in danger of deaths. 24 Five times I received from Jews 40 lashes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the deep; 26 often on journeys, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers; 27 in hard work and hardship, often in sleeplessness, in hunger and thirst, often in fasting, in cold and nakedness; 28 apart from the other things, there is the care for me every day, the concern of all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I am not inflamed?

30 If it is necessary to boast, I will boast about the things of my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, the one being blessed to eternity, knows that I am not lying! 32 In Damascus, the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of Damascenes to arrest me. 33 But I was lowered in a basket through a window through the wall, and I escaped from his hands.

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