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Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 11
{11:1} I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness,
but indeed you do bear with me. {11:2} For I am jealous over you with
a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might
present you as a pure virgin to Messiah. {11:3} But I am afraid that
somehow, as the serpent deceived Havah in his craftiness, so your
minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah.
{11:4} For if he who comes preaches another Yeshua, whom we did not
proclaim, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not
receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put
up with that well enough. {11:5} For I reckon that I am not at all
behind the very best emissaries. {11:6} But though I am unskilled in
speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have
been revealed to you in all things. {11:7} Or did I commit a sin in
humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you
God's Good News free of charge? {11:8} I robbed other assemblies,
taking wages from them that I might serve you. {11:9} When I was
present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the
brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my
need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I
will continue to do so. {11:10} As the truth of Messiah is in me, no
one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. {11:11}
Why? Because I don't love you? God knows. {11:12} But what I do, that
I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an
occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
{11:13} For such men are false emissaries, deceitful workers,
masquerading as Messiah's emissaries. {11:14} And no wonder, for even
Satan masquerades as an angel of light. {11:15} It is no great thing
therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of
righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
{11:16} I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet
receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little. {11:17} That
which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in
foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. {11:18} Seeing that many
boast after the flesh, I will also boast. {11:19} For you bear with
the foolish gladly, being wise. {11:20} For you bear with a man, if he
brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive,
if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face. {11:21} I speak
by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any
is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. {11:22} Are they
Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of
Abraham? So am I. {11:23} Are they servants of Messiah? (I speak as
one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in
prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
{11:24} Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.
{11:25} Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three
times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
{11:26} I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of
robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils
in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among
false brothers; {11:27} in labor and travail, in watchings often, in
hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
{11:28} Besides those things that are outside, there is that which
presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. {11:29} Who is
weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn
with indignation? {11:30} If I must boast, I will boast of the things
that concern my weakness. {11:31} The God and Father of the Lord
Yeshua the Messiah, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don't
lie. {11:32} In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the
city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me. {11:33} Through a window
I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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