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2 Corinthians - ch 11 v 1 - 20
- Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.
- For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.
- But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.
- For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.
- For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.
- But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.
- Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?
- I took money from other churches as payment for my work, so that I might be your servant;
- And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.
- As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.
- Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.
- But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.
- For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.
- And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.
- So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.
- I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.
- What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.
- Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.
- For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.
- You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.
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