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2 Corinthians - ch 11 v 1 - 20
- Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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'.
- For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
- But though `I be' rude in speech, yet `am I' not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made `this' manifest unto you in all things.
- 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?
- I robbed other churches, taking wages `of them' that I might minister unto you;
- 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'.
- As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.
- Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
- But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
- For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
- And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light.
- It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
- 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.
- That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.
- Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
- For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise `yourselves'.
- 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.
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