CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>2 Corinthians 11 KJV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/kjv/2_corinthians/11.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><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="/combine/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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">KJV</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 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">King James Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Paul and the False Apostles</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Would to God ye could bear with me a little in <i>my</i> folly: and indeed bear with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present <i>you as</i> a chaste virgin to Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or <i>if</i> ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with <i>him</i>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But though <i>I be</i> rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I robbed other churches, taking wages <i>of them</i>, to do you service. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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 <i>things</i> I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and <i>so</i> will I keep <i>myself</i>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For such <i>are</i> false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Therefore <i>it is</i> no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.</p> <a name="16" id="16"></a><p class="hdg">Paul's Sufferings and Service<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../colossians/1.htm#24">Colossians 1:24-29</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>That which I speak, I speak <i>it</i> not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye <i>yourselves</i> are wise. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour <i>you</i>, if a man take <i>of you</i>, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Are they Hebrews? so <i>am</i> I. Are they Israelites? so <i>am</i> I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so <i>am</i> I. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I <i>am</i> more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Of the Jews five times received I forty <i>stripes</i> save one. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><i>In</i> journeyings often, <i>in</i> perils of waters, <i>in</i> perils of robbers, <i>in</i> perils by <i>mine own</i> countrymen, <i>in</i> perils by the heathen, <i>in</i> perils in the city, <i>in</i> perils in the wilderness, <i>in</i> perils in the sea, <i>in</i> perils among false brethren; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. <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 burn not?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend 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 escaped his hands.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">King James Bible<br /><br />Text courtesy of <a href="//www.bibleprotector.com/"> BibleProtector.com</a><br /><br />Section Headings Courtesy <a href="//intbible.com/">INT Bible</a><br />© 2012, Used by Permission<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/2_corinthians/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>