Sha'ul�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
by any means, 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
preach, 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 apostles. {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 for nothing? {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 apostles, deceitful workers,
masquerading as Messiah's apostles. {11:14} And no wonder, for even
Hasatan masquerades as an angel of light. {11:15} It is no great thing
therefore if his ministers 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 after 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 Yisra'elites? So am I. Are they the seed of Avraham? 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
Yehudim 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 Goyim, 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? {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 Dammesek the governor
under Aretas the king 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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