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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Corinthians 11 Mace New Testament</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_corinthians/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_corinthians/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Mace</a> > 2 Corinthians 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_corinthians/10.htm" title="2 Corinthians 10">◄</a> 2 Corinthians 11 <a href="../2_corinthians/12.htm" title="2 Corinthians 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Mace New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/2_corinthians/11-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Paul and the False Apostles<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Would you could bear with me a little in my vanity, but indeed you do bear with me. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>for I am jealous over you with religious jealousy: since I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>but I fear lest by some means or other, as Eve was beguiled by the subtilly of the serpent, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is due to Christ. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>if he that is come to you, preaches another Jesus whom I have not preached, or if ye receive other gifts of the spirit, than what ye have received from me, or another gospel, than what you have accepted, you might well bear with his pretensions: <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>for I think I am not at all inferior to the chiefest of the apostles. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>if my language is inelegant, my knowledge is not contemptible; but has been fully display'd among you on all occasions.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If I have degraded myself for your advantage by preaching the holy gospel to you gratis, is that such a trespass? <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>by taking wages of other churches, I may have injured them, to do you service. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>when I was present among you, and in want, I was chargeable to no man: for the brethren which came from Macedonia, supplied my necessities: and as I have, so I always shall keep myself from being burdensome to you. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I solemnly protest, no man shall hinder me of this applause, in the regions of Achaia. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>why so? is it because I love you not? far otherwise, God knows.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>but this I do, and shall do, to make them drop their hire, who are so bent upon hire: and then indeed they will be as they pretend to be, like me. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>for these are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguised so as to pass for true apostles. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and no wonder; for satan himself may put on the appearance of an angel of light. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>therefore it is not strange if his agents are so disguised as to appear like ministers of the gospel; but their end shall be answerable to their actions.<p> <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">Paul’s Suffering and Service<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../colossians/1.htm#24">Colossians 1:24–29</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I say it again, let no man think me vain; but if they do, yet as such, bear with me, that I too may applaud my self a little. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>what I say, I say it not as an apostle, but as it were to indulge my vanity in this matter of boasting. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>since many glory in outward advantages, I will glory too. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>for as wise as you are your selves, you easily bear with the folly of others. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>if a man impose upon you, if he preys upon you, if he makes a gain of you, if a man insults you, if he disgracefully assaults you, I mean it as to their reproaches, you take it all; <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>as if I was inferior to them, but whatever they pretend to, (I must be so vain) I pretend to the like. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Are they Hebrews? so am I: are they Israelites? so am I: are they of the race of Abraham? <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>so am I: are they ministers of Christ? is it my vanity? I am more so: in toilsome labours I surpass them, in stripes I am exceedingly beyond them, in prisons I have been oftner, and frequently in the very jaws of death. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>from the Jews I have five times received forty stripes save one. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>thrice was I whip'd with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I was shipwreck'd; a night and a day I was floating on the deep: <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>in my voyages I have been frequently in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the country, in perils at sea, in perils among false brethren; <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>expos'd to toil, to fatigue, to frequent watchings, to hunger and thirst, to frequent fastings, to cold and penury. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>besides these troubles from without, that which crouds upon me daily, the care of all the churches. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>who is afflicted, and I not suffer? who is offended, and I not inflam'd?<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If I must be compell'd to glory, I will glory on the account of my sufferings. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>the ever-blessed God, and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, knows that I speak truth. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>in Damascus the governor for king Aretas, posted guards at the city-gates, with a design to apprehend me: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>but thro' a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and so escap'd.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Daniel Mace New Testament (1729)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_corinthians/10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Corinthians 10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Corinthians 10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_corinthians/12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Corinthians 12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Corinthians 12" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>