a Matt 17:17; 2 Cor 11:4, 16, 19f
b 2 Cor 5:13; 11:17, 21
d Hos 2:19f; Eph 5:26f
e 2 Cor 4:14
f Gen 3:4, 13; John 8:44; 1 Thess 3:5; 1 Tim 2:14; Rev 12:9, 15
h 1 Cor 3:11
i Rom 8:15
j Gal 1:6
k 2 Cor 11:1
l Mark 7:9
m 2 Cor 12:11; Gal 2:6
o 1 Cor 1:17
p 1 Cor 12:8; Eph 3:4
q 2 Cor 4:2
r 2 Cor 12:13
s Rom 1:1; 2 Cor 2:12
t Acts 18:3; 1 Cor 9:18
u 1 Cor 4:12; 9:6; Phil 4:15, 18
v 2 Cor 12:13f, 16
w Acts 18:5
x Rom 15:26; Phil 4:15-18
y 2 Cor 12:13f, 16
aa Rom 1:9; 9:1; 2 Cor 1:23; Gal 2:20
ab 1 Cor 9:15
ac Acts 18:12
ad 2 Cor 12:15
ae Rom 1:9; 2 Cor 2:17; 11:31; 12:2f
af 1 Cor 9:12
ah Acts 20:30; Gal 1:7; 2:4; Phil 1:15; Titus 1:10f; 2 Pet 2:1; Rev 2:2
ai Phil 3:2
aj Matt 4:10; Eph 6:12; Col 1:13
ak Col 1:12
al Rom 2:6; 3:8
am 2 Cor 11:1
ao 1 Cor 7:12, 25
ap 2 Cor 11:21
aq Phil 3:3f
ar 2 Cor 5:16
as 1 Cor 4:10
at 2 Cor 1:24; Gal 2:4; 4:3, 9; 5:1
au Mark 12:40
av 2 Cor 11:3; 12:16
aw 2 Cor 10:5
ax 1 Cor 4:11
ay 2 Cor 6:8
az 2 Cor 10:10
ba 2 Cor 10:2
bb 2 Cor 11:17
bc Acts 6:1
bd Phil 3:5
be Rom 9:4
bf Rom 9:4
bh Gal 3:16
bi Rom 11:1
bj 1 Cor 3:5; 2 Cor 3:6; 10:7
bl 1 Cor 15:10
bn 2 Cor 6:5
bp Acts 16:23; 2 Cor 6:5
bq Rom 8:36
br Deut 25:3
bs Acts 16:22
bt Acts 14:19
bu Acts 9:23; 13:45, 50; 14:5; 17:5, 13; 18:12; 20:3, 19; 21:27; 23:10, 12; 25:3; 1 Thess 2:15
bv Acts 14:5, 19; 19:23ff; 27:42
bw Acts 21:31
bx Gal 2:4
by 1 Thess 2:9; 2 Thess 3:8
ca 1 Cor 4:11; Phil 4:12
cb 2 Cor 6:5
cd 1 Cor 4:11
cf 1 Cor 7:17
cg 1 Cor 8:9, 13; 9:22
cj 1 Cor 2:3
ck Rom 1:25
cl 2 Cor 11:11
cm Acts 9:2
cn Acts 9:24
co Acts 9:25

2 Corinthians 11

Paul Defends His Apostleship

1I wish that you would abear with me in a little bfoolishness; but ▼
▼ Or do indeed bear with me
indeed you are bearing with me. 2For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I dbetrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might epresent you as a pure virgin. 3But I am afraid that, as the fserpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. 4For if ▼
▼ Lit the one who comes preaches
one comes and preaches hanother Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a idifferent spirit which you have not received, or a jdifferent gospel which you have not accepted, you kbear this lbeautifully. 5For I consider myself mnot in the least inferior to the ▼
▼ Or super-apostles
most eminent apostles. 6But even if I am ounskilled in speech, yet I am not so in pknowledge; in fact, in every way we have qmade this evident to you in all things.

7Or rdid I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the sgospel of God to you twithout charge? 8I robbed other churches by utaking wages from them to serve you; 9and when I was present with you and was in need, I was vnot a burden to anyone; for when wthe brethren came from xMacedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from ybeing a burden to you, ▼
▼ Lit and I will keep
and will continue to do so. 10 aaAs the truth of Christ is in me, abthis boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of acAchaia. 11Why? adBecause I do not love you? aeGod knows I do!

12But what I am doing I will continue to do, afso that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be ▼
▼ Lit found
regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting. 13For such men are ahfalse apostles, aideceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14No wonder, for even ajSatan disguises himself as an akangel of light. 15Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, alwhose end will be according to their deeds.

16 amAgain I say, let no one think me foolish; but if you do, receive me even as foolish, so that I also may boast a little. 17What I am saying, I am not saying ▼
▼ Lit in accordance with the Lord
 , aoas the Lord would, but as apin foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. 18Since aqmany boast araccording to the flesh, I will boast also. 19For you, asbeing so wise, tolerate the foolish gladly. 20For you tolerate it if anyone atenslaves you, anyone audevours you, anyone avtakes advantage of you, anyone awexalts himself, anyone axhits you in the face. 21To my ayshame I must say that we have been azweak by comparison.

But in whatever respect anyone else bais bold— I bbspeak in foolishness— I am just as bold myself. 22Are they bcHebrews? bdSo am I. Are they beIsraelites? bfSo am I. Are they ▼
▼ Lit seed
 , bhdescendants of Abraham? biSo am I. 23Are they bjservants of Christ?—I speak as if insane— I more so; in ▼
▼ Lit more abundant
 , blfar more labors, in ▼
▼ Lit more abundant
 , bnfar more imprisonments, ▼
▼ Lit exceedingly in stripes
 , bpbeaten times without number, often in bqdanger of death. 24Five times I received from the Jews brthirty-nine lashes. 25Three times I was bsbeaten with rods, once I was btstoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep. 26I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my bucountrymen, dangers from the bvGentiles, dangers in the bwcity, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among bxfalse brethren; 27I have been in bylabor and hardship, ▼
▼ Lit often in wakefulness
through many sleepless nights, in cahunger and thirst, often cbwithout food, in cold and ▼
▼ Lit nakedness; i.e. lack of clothing
 , cdexposure. 28Apart from such ▼
▼ Or the things unmentioned
external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for cfall the churches. 29Who is cgweak without my being weak? Who is ▼
▼ Lit made to stumble
led into sin ▼
▼ Lit and I do not burn
without my intense concern?

30If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my cjweakness. 31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, ckHe who is blessed forever, clknows that I am not lying. 32In cmDamascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was cnguarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me, 33and I was let down in a basket cothrough a window ▼
▼ Lit through
in the wall, and so escaped his hands.
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