2 Corinthians 11

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1 I would be obliged were you to bear with me in a little folly. Rather, indeed bear with me.
2 For I admire you with zeal of Yahweh; for I have joined you to one Husband, to present a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear lest in any way, as the serpent had thoroughly beguiled Eve in his villainy, your thoughts would be corrupted from that sincerity and that purity which is with the Anointed.
4 For if indeed one coming proclaims another Yahshua whom we did not proclaim, or you admit a different spirit which you have not received, or a different good message which you had not accepted, would you hold up well?
5 For I reckon in nothing to have been inferior to those most eminent ambassadors.
6 And even if unpracticed in speech, yet not in knowledge; but rather in every way being made known in all things to you.
7 Can it be that I have made an error, humbling myself in order that you may be elevated, because I have announced the good message of Yahweh to you freely?
8 I have deprived other assemblies, taking provisions for your service.
9 And being present with you and wanting, I had burdened no one, (indeed my need had been filled by the brethren who came from Makedonia,) and in everything I have kept and will keep myself unburdensome to you.
10 The truth of Christ is in me, for that this reason to boast shall not be contained in me within the regions of Achaia.
11 For what purpose? Because I do not love you? Yahweh knows.
12 But that which I do, and I will do, in order that I cut off the pretext of those desiring a pretext at which in that they may boast that they would be found just as we.
13 Such as these are false ambassadors, treacherous workers, transforming themselves into ambassadors of Christ.
14 And no wonder, for the Adversary himself transforms himself into a messenger of light.
15 Therefore it is no big thing if even his ministers transform themselves as ministers of justice; of whom the end shall be in accordance with their deeds.
16 Again I say, no one should suppose me to be a fool, otherwise even if as a fool you accept me, that I then at least may boast a little.
17 That which I speak, I do not speak with authority but as if in folly, in this the substance of that reason to boast.
18 Since many may boast in accordance with the flesh, then for my part I will boast.
19 For you, being prudent, gladly bear with those being fools.
20 You bear it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours your substance, if anyone takes, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone thrashes you upon the face.
21 I speak concerning dishonor, as though we had been weak; but with this should anyone be daring (in folly I speak,) I also am daring.
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 wandering from reason.) I am even more. In labors more excessively, in imprisonment more abundantly, in thrashings exceedingly, in perils of death often.
24 By Judaeans five times I have received forty lashes except one,
25 three times I have been beaten with rods, once I have been stoned. Three times I have been shipwrecked, I had done a night and a day in the deep.
26 In journeys many times in dangers of rivers, in dangers of pirates, in dangers from kinsmen, in dangers from heathens, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the desert, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brethren;
27 in labors and hardships, often in sleeplessness; in hunger and thirst, often in fasting; in cold and in nakedness.
28 Apart from the external things hindering me daily is the care of all of the assemblies.
29 One is weak, and I am not weak? One is entrapped, and I am not inflamed?
30 If there is need to boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness.
31 Yahweh, even the Father of our Prince Yahshua Christ knows, He who is being praised to the ages, that I do not speak falsely.
32 In Damaskos, the ethnarch of Aretas the king had been guarding the city of the Damaskenes, to lay hold of me.
33 Then through a window in a basket I had been let down over the city wall, and had escaped his hands.