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World English Bible

2 Corinthians 11 (WEBP)

[1] I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
[2] For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
[3] But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
[4] For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
[5] For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
[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.
[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?
[8] I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
[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.
[10] As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
[11] Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
[12] But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.
[13] For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
[14] And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
[15] It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
[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.
[17] That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
[18] Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
[19] For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
[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, or if he strikes you on the face.
[21] To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
[22] Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
[23] Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
[24] Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
[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.
[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;
[27] in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
[28] Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
[29] Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
[30] If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
[31] The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
[32] In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
[33] I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.

2 Corinthians 11:22 or, seed

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

2 Corinthians 11 (KJVS)

[1] Would to God ye could bear () with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear () with me.
[2] For I am jealous () over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused () you to one husband, that I may present () you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
[3] But I fear, () lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled () Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted () from the simplicity that is in Christ.
[4] For if he that cometh () preacheth () another Jesus, whom we have not preached, () or if ye receive () another spirit, which ye have not received, () or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, () ye might well bear with () him.
[5] For I suppose () I was not a whit behind () the very chiefest apostles.
[6] But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest () among you in all things.
[7] Have I committed () an offence in abasing () myself that ye might be exalted, () because I have preached () to you the gospel of God freely?
[8] I robbed () other churches, taking () wages of them, to do you service.
[9] And when I was present () with you, and wanted, () I was chargeable () to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came () from Macedonia supplied: () and in all things I have kept () myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep () myself.
[10] As the truth of Christ is () in me, no man shall stop () () me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
[11] Wherefore? because I love () you not? God knoweth. ()
[12] But what I do, () that I will do, () that I may cut off () occasion from them which desire () occasion; that wherein they glory, () they may be found () even as we.
[13] For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves () into the apostles of Christ.
[14] And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed () into an angel of light.
[15] Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed () as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be () according to their works.
[16] I say () again, Let no man think () me () a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive () me, that I may boast myself () a little.
[17] That which I speak, () I speak () it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
[18] Seeing that many glory () after the flesh, I will glory () also.
[19] For ye suffer () fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are () wise.
[20] For ye suffer, () if a man bring you into bondage, () if a man devour () you, if a man take () of you, if a man exalt himself, () if a man smite () you on the face.
[21] I speak () as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. () Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, () (I speak () foolishly,) I am bold () also.
[22] Are they () Hebrews? so am I. Are they () Israelites? so am I. Are they () the seed of Abraham? 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 oft.
[24] Of the Jews five times received I () forty stripes save one.
[25] Thrice was I beaten with rods, () once was I stoned, () thrice I suffered shipwreck, () a night and a day I have been () in the deep;
[26] in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
[27] in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
[28] Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
[29] Who is weak, () and I am not weak? () who is offended, () and I burn () not?
[30] If I must needs () glory, () I will glory () of the things which concern mine infirmities.
[31] The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is () blessed for evermore, knoweth () that I lie () not.
[32] In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, () desirous () to apprehend () me:
[33] and through a window in a basket was I let down () by the wall, and escaped () his hands.

2 Corinthians 11:1 Or, you do bear with me
2 Corinthians 11:16 Or, suffer

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

2 Corinthians 11 (BYZ)

[1] Ὄφελον () ἀνείχεσθέ () μου () μικρὸν () τῇ () ἀφροσύνῃ· () ἀλλὰ () καὶ () ἀνέχεσθέ () μου. ()
[2] Ζηλῶ () γὰρ () ὑμᾶς () θεοῦ () ζήλῳ· () ἡρμοσάμην () γὰρ () ὑμᾶς () ἑνὶ () ἀνδρὶ () παρθένον () ἁγνὴν () παραστῆσαι () τῷ () χριστῷ. ()
[3] Φοβοῦμαι () δὲ () μήπως () ὡς () ὁ () ὄφις () Εὔαν () ἐξηπάτησεν () ἐν () τῇ () πανουργίᾳ () αὐτοῦ, () οὕτως () φθαρῇ () τὰ () νοήματα () ὑμῶν () ἀπὸ () τῆς () ἁπλότητος () τῆς () εἰς () τὸν () χριστόν. ()
[4] Εἰ () μὲν () γὰρ () ὁ () ἐρχόμενος () ἄλλον () Ἰησοῦν () κηρύσσει () ὃν () οὐκ () ἐκηρύξαμεν, () ἢ () πνεῦμα () ἕτερον () λαμβάνετε () ὃ () οὐκ () ἐλάβετε, () ἢ () εὐαγγέλιον () ἕτερον () ὃ () οὐκ () ἐδέξασθε, () καλῶς () ἠνείχεσθε. ()
[5] Λογίζομαι () γὰρ () μηδὲν () ὑστερηκέναι () τῶν () ὑπὲρ () λίαν () ἀποστόλων. ()
[6] Εἰ () δὲ () καὶ () ἰδιώτης () τῷ () λόγῳ, () ἀλλ’ () οὐ () τῇ () γνώσει· () ἀλλ’ () ἐν () παντὶ () φανερωθέντες () ἐν () πᾶσιν () εἰς () ὑμᾶς. ()
[7] Ἢ () ἁμαρτίαν () ἐποίησα () ἐμαυτὸν () ταπεινῶν () ἵνα () ὑμεῖς () ὑψωθῆτε, () ὅτι () δωρεὰν () τὸ () τοῦ () θεοῦ () εὐαγγέλιον () εὐηγγελισάμην () ὑμῖν; ()
[8] Ἄλλας () ἐκκλησίας () ἐσύλησα, () λαβὼν () ὀψώνιον () πρὸς () τὴν () ὑμῶν () διακονίαν· ()
[9] καὶ () παρὼν () πρὸς () ὑμᾶς () καὶ () ὑστερηθείς, () οὐ () κατενάρκησα () οὐδενός· () τὸ () γὰρ () ὑστέρημά () μου () προσανεπλήρωσαν () οἱ () ἀδελφοί, () ἐλθόντες () ἀπὸ () Μακεδονίας· () καὶ () ἐν () παντὶ () ἀβαρῆ () ὑμῖν () ἐμαυτὸν () ἐτήρησα () καὶ () τηρήσω. ()
[10] Ἔστιν () ἀλήθεια () χριστοῦ () ἐν () ἐμοί, () ὅτι () ἡ () καύχησις () αὕτη () οὐ () φραγήσεται () εἰς () ἐμὲ () ἐν () τοῖς () κλίμασιν () τῆς () Ἀχαί̈ας. ()
[11] Διὰ () τί; () Ὅτι () οὐκ () ἀγαπῶ () ὑμᾶς; () Ὁ () θεὸς () οἶδεν. ()
[12] Ὃ () δὲ () ποιῶ, () καὶ () ποιήσω, () ἵνα () ἐκκόψω () τὴν () ἀφορμὴν () τῶν () θελόντων () ἀφορμήν, () ἵνα () ἐν () ᾧ () καυχῶνται, () εὑρεθῶσιν () καθὼς () καὶ () ἡμεῖς. ()
[13] Οἱ () γὰρ () τοιοῦτοι () ψευδαπόστολοι, () ἐργάται () δόλιοι, () μετασχηματιζόμενοι () εἰς () ἀποστόλους () χριστοῦ. ()
[14] Καὶ () οὐ () θαυμαστόν· () αὐτὸς () γὰρ () ὁ () Σατανᾶς () μετασχηματίζεται () εἰς () ἄγγελον () φωτός. ()
[15] Οὐ () μέγα () οὖν () εἰ () καὶ () οἱ () διάκονοι () αὐτοῦ () μετασχηματίζονται () ὡς () διάκονοι () δικαιοσύνης, () ὧν () τὸ () τέλος () ἔσται () κατὰ () τὰ () ἔργα () αὐτῶν. ()
[16] Πάλιν () λέγω, () μή () τίς () με () δόξῃ () ἄφρονα () εἶναι· () εἰ () δὲ () μήγε, () κἂν () ὡς () ἄφρονα () δέξασθέ () με, () ἵνα () κἀγὼ () μικρόν () τι () καυχήσωμαι. ()
[17] Ὃ () λαλῶ, () οὐ () λαλῶ () κατὰ () κύριον, () ἀλλ’ () ὡς () ἐν () ἀφροσύνῃ, () ἐν () ταύτῃ () τῇ () ὑποστάσει () τῆς () καυχήσεως. ()
[18] Ἐπεὶ () πολλοὶ () καυχῶνται () κατὰ () τὴν () σάρκα, () κἀγὼ () καυχήσομαι. ()
[19] Ἡδέως () γὰρ () ἀνέχεσθε () τῶν () ἀφρόνων, () φρόνιμοι () ὄντες. ()
[20] Ἀνέχεσθε () γάρ, () εἴ () τις () ὑμᾶς () καταδουλοῖ, () εἴ () τις () κατεσθίει, () εἴ () τις () λαμβάνει, () εἴ () τις () ἐπαίρεται, () εἴ () τις () ὑμᾶς () εἰς () πρόσωπον () δέρει. ()
[21] Κατὰ () ἀτιμίαν () λέγω, () ὡς () ὅτι () ἡμεῖς () ἠσθενήσαμεν· () ἐν () ᾧ () δ’ () ἄν () τις () τολμᾷ () ἐν () ἀφροσύνῃ () λέγω () τολμῶ () κἀγώ. ()
[22] Ἑβραῖοί () εἰσιν; () Κἀγώ. () Ἰσραηλῖταί () εἰσιν; () Κἀγώ. () Σπέρμα () Ἀβραάμ () εἰσιν; () Κἀγώ. ()
[23] Διάκονοι () χριστοῦ () εἰσιν; () παραφρονῶν () λαλῶ () Ὑπὲρ () ἐγώ. () Ἐν () κόποις () περισσοτέρως, () ἐν () πληγαῖς () ὑπερβαλλόντως, () ἐν () φυλακαῖς () περισσοτέρως, () ἐν () θανάτοις () πολλάκις, ()
[24] ὑπὸ () Ἰουδαίων () πεντάκις () τεσσαράκοντα () παρὰ () μίαν () ἔλαβον. ()
[25] Τρὶς () ἐραβδίσθην, () ἅπαξ () ἐλιθάσθην, () τρὶς () ἐναυάγησα, () νυχθήμερον () ἐν () τῷ () βυθῷ () πεποίηκα· ()
[26] ὁδοιπορίαις () πολλάκις, () κινδύνοις () ποταμῶν, () κινδύνοις () λῃστῶν, () κινδύνοις () ἐκ () γένους, () κινδύνοις () ἐξ () ἐθνῶν, () κινδύνοις () ἐν () πόλει, () κινδύνοις () ἐν () ἐρημίᾳ, () κινδύνοις () ἐν () θαλάσσῃ, () κινδύνοις () ἐν () ψευδαδέλφοις· ()
[27] ἐν () κόπῳ () καὶ () μόχθῳ, () ἐν () ἀγρυπνίαις () πολλάκις, () ἐν () λιμῷ () καὶ () δίψει, () ἐν () νηστείαις () πολλάκις, () ἐν () ψύχει () καὶ () γυμνότητι. ()
[28] Χωρὶς () τῶν () παρεκτός, () ἡ () ἐπισύστασίς () μου () ἡ () καθ’ () ἡμέραν, () ἡ () μέριμνα () πασῶν () τῶν () ἐκκλησιῶν. ()
[29] Τίς () ἀσθενεῖ, () καὶ () οὐκ () ἀσθενῶ; () Τίς () σκανδαλίζεται, () καὶ () οὐκ () ἐγὼ () πυροῦμαι; ()
[30] Εἰ () καυχᾶσθαι () δεῖ, () τὰ () τῆς () ἀσθενείας () μου () καυχήσομαι. ()
[31] Ὁ () θεὸς () καὶ () πατὴρ () τοῦ () κυρίου () Ἰησοῦ () χριστοῦ () οἶδεν, () ὁ () ὢν () εὐλογητὸς () εἰς () τοὺς () αἰῶνας, () ὅτι () οὐ () ψεύδομαι. ()
[32] Ἐν () Δαμασκῷ () ὁ () ἐθνάρχης () Ἀρέτα () τοῦ () βασιλέως () ἐφρούρει () τὴν () Δαμασκηνῶν () πόλιν, () πιάσαι () με () θέλων· ()
[33] καὶ () διὰ () θυρίδος () ἐν () σαργάνῃ () ἐχαλάσθην () διὰ () τοῦ () τείχους () καὶ () ἐξέφυγον () τὰς () χεῖρας () αὐτοῦ. ()

2 Corinthians 11:1 N τῇ ἀφροσύνῃ ⇒ τι ἀφροσύνης
2 Corinthians 11:3a N μήπως ⇒ μή πως
2 Corinthians 11:3b N Εὔαν ἐξηπάτησεν ⇒ ἐξηπάτησεν Εὕαν
2 Corinthians 11:3c N οὕτως ⇒ -
2 Corinthians 11:3d N ἁπλότητος ⇒ ἁπλότητος [καὶ τῆς ἁγνότητος]
2 Corinthians 11:4a B ἠνείχεσθε ⇒ ἀνείχεσθε
2 Corinthians 11:4b N ἠνείχεσθε ⇒ ἀνέχεσθε
2 Corinthians 11:5 N ὑπὲρ λίαν ⇒ ὑπερλίαν
2 Corinthians 11:6 N φανερωθέντες ⇒ φανερώσαντες
2 Corinthians 11:9a N οὐδενός ⇒ οὐθενός
2 Corinthians 11:9b N ὑμῖν ἐμαυτὸν ⇒ ἐμαυτὸν ὑμῖν
2 Corinthians 11:14 N θαυμαστόν ⇒ θαῦμα
2 Corinthians 11:16 N μήγε ⇒ μή γε
2 Corinthians 11:17 N λαλῶ κατὰ κύριον ⇒ κατὰ κύριον λαλῶ
2 Corinthians 11:18 N τὴν ⇒ -
2 Corinthians 11:20 N ὑμᾶς εἰς πρόσωπον ⇒ εἰς πρόσωπον ὑμᾶς
2 Corinthians 11:21 N ἠσθενήσαμεν ⇒ ἠσθενήκαμεν
2 Corinthians 11:23 N πληγαῖς ὑπερβαλλόντως ἐν φυλακαῖς περισσοτέρως ⇒ φυλακαῖς περισσοτέρως ἐν πληγαῖς ὑπερβαλλόντως
2 Corinthians 11:24 N τεσσαράκοντα ⇒ τεσσεράκοντα
2 Corinthians 11:25 N ἐραβδίσθην ⇒ ἐρραβδίσθην
2 Corinthians 11:27 N ἐν κόπῳ ⇒ κόπῳ
2 Corinthians 11:28 N ἐπισύστασίς μου ⇒ ἐπίστασίς μοι
2 Corinthians 11:31 N χριστοῦ ⇒ -
2 Corinthians 11:32a N Δαμασκηνῶν πόλιν ⇒ πόλιν Δαμασκηνῶν
2 Corinthians 11:32b N θέλων ⇒ -