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<!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"><title>2 Corinthians 11 ERV</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</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">English Revised Version</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 that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: nay 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 a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure 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 in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward 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 did not preach, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For I reckon that I am 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 be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in everything we have made it manifest among all men to you-ward.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself. <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 glorying 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 an 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 men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as 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 foolish; but if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying. <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 bear with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. <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 the seed of Abraham? so am I. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labours more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, 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 stripes 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 have I been in the deep; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>in labour and travail, 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, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for 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 made to stumble, 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 that concern my weakness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who 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 guarded the city of the Damascenes, in order to take me: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><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="//biblescan.com/mpad/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 src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>