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2 Corinthians - ch 11 v 1 - 20
- I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
- For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
- But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
- For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
- For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
- But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
- Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?
- I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
- When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
- As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
- Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.
- But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
- For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.
- And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
- It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
- I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
- That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
- Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
- For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
- For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
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