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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 Smith's Literal Translation</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="../">SLT</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">Smith's Literal Translation</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>I would ye hold me up a little in my folly: and indeed 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 zealous of you with the zeal of God: for I fitted you to one husband, to present a pure virgin to Christ. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And I am afraid lest, as the serpent completely deceived Eve in his craft, so your thoughts be corrupted from the simplicity which in Christ. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For if he coming proclaim another Jesus, which I proclaimed not, or ye receive another spirit, which ye received not, or other good news, which ye received not, ye have held up well. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For I reckon myself to be nothing greatly inferior to the sent. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And, if also ignorant in the word, but not in knowledge; but in every thing, we having been made manifest in all for you.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Or did I a sin, humbling myself that ye might be exalted, because I announced to you the good news of God gratuitously? <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I stripped other churches, having received pay, for your service. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The truth of Christ is in me, for this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Wherefore? because I love you not? God knows.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And what I do, and I will do, that I shall not cut off the occasion of those wishing the occasion; that in what they boast, they be found as also we. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For such the falsely sent, crafty workers, being transformed into the sent of Christ. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And not wonderful; for Satan himself is transformed into a messenger of light. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>No great thing therefore if also his servants are transformed as servants of justice; whose end shall be according to their works.<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>Again I say, lest any one should think me to be mad; and if not so indeed, as mad do ye receive me that I might also boast myself some little. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in madness, in this first principle of boasting. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Since many boast according to the flesh, I shall also boast. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For ye bear with the mad willingly, being wise. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For ye bear, if any reduce you to bondage, if any devour, if any receive, if any be lifted up, if any skin you on the face. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I speak according to dishonour, as that we were weak. And in what any dares, (I speak in rashness,) I dare also. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they Abraham's seed? I also. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Of the Jews five times I received forty, except one. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Thrice was I scourged with rods, once was I stoned, thrice suffered I shipwreck, I have made a night and day in the deep; <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of the family, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in solitude, in dangers in the sea, in dangers with false brethren; <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Besides things outside, my distraction 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 weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I am not inflamed.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If I must boast, I will boast things of my weakness. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ knows, he being praised forever, that I lie not. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>In Damascus king Aretas' governor watched the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and I escaped from his hands.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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