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Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 11

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2 Corinthians 11 NASB - New American Standard Bible2 Corinthians 11 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 11 of 2 Corinthians—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ I wish that you would 1bear with me in a little 2foolishness; but [a]indeed you are bearing with me.
  2. For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I 3betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might 4present you as a pure virgin.
  3. But I am afraid that, as the 5serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
  4. For if [b]one comes and preaches 6another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a 7different spirit which you have not received, or a 8different gospel which you have not accepted, you 9bear this 10beautifully.
  5. For I consider myself 11not in the least inferior to the [c]most eminent apostles.
  6. But even if I am 12unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in 13knowledge; in fact, in every way we have 14made this evident to you in all things.
  7. ¶ Or 15did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the 16gospel of God to you 17without charge?
  8. I robbed other churches by 18taking wages from them to serve you;
  9. and when I was present with you and was in need, I was 19not a burden to anyone; for when 20the brethren came from 21Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from 22being a burden to you, [d]and will continue to do so.
  10. 23As the truth of Christ is in me, 24this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of 25Achaia.
  11. Why? 26Because I do not love you? 27God knows I do!
  12. ¶ But what I am doing I will continue to do, 28so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be [e]regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting.
  13. For such men are 29false apostles, 30deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
  14. No wonder, for even 31Satan disguises himself as an 32angel of light.
  15. Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, 33whose end will be according to their deeds.
  16. 34Again 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.
  17. What I am saying, I am not saying [f]35as the Lord would, but as 36in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
  18. Since 37many boast 38according to the flesh, I will boast also.
  19. For you, 39being so wise, tolerate the foolish gladly.
  20. For you tolerate it if anyone 40enslaves you, anyone 41devours you, anyone 42takes advantage of you, anyone 43exalts himself, anyone 44hits you in the face.
  21. To my 45shame I must say that we have been 46weak by comparison.
    ¶ But in whatever respect anyone else 47is bold—I 48speak in foolishness—I am just as bold myself.
  22. Are they 49Hebrews? 50So am I. Are they 51Israelites? 52So am I. Are they [g]53descendants of Abraham? 54So am I.
  23. Are they 55servants of Christ?—I speak as if insane—I more so; in [h]56far more labors, in [i]57far more imprisonments, [j]58beaten times without number, often in 59danger of death.
  24. Five times I received from the Jews 60thirty-nine lashes.
  25. Three times I was 61beaten with rods, once I was 62stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.
  26. I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my 63countrymen, dangers from the 64Gentiles, dangers in the 65city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among 66false brethren;
  27. I have been in 67labor and hardship, [k]through many sleepless nights, in 68hunger and thirst, often 69without food, in cold and [l]70exposure.
  28. Apart from such [m]external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for 71all the churches.
  29. Who is 72weak without my being weak? Who is [n]led into sin [o]without my intense concern?
  30. ¶ If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my 73weakness.
  31. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, 74He who is blessed forever, 75knows that I am not lying.
  32. In 76Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was 77guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,
  33. and I was let down in a basket 78through a window [p]in the wall, and so escaped his hands.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or do indeed bear with me
  2. ^ Lit the one who comes preaches
  3. ^ Or super-apostles
  4. ^ Lit and I will keep
  5. ^ Lit found
  6. ^ Lit in accordance with the Lord
  7. ^ Lit seed
  8. ^ Lit more abundant
  9. ^ Lit more abundant
  10. ^ Lit exceedingly in stripes
  11. ^ Lit often in wakefulness
  12. ^ Lit nakedness; i.e. lack of clothing
  13. ^ Or the things unmentioned
  14. ^ Lit made to stumble
  15. ^ Lit and I do not burn
  16. ^ Lit through

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Mt 17:17; 2Co 11:4, 16, 19f
  2. ^ 2Co 5:13; 11:17, 21
  3. ^ Ho 2:19f; Eph 5:26f
  4. ^ 2Co 4:14
  5. ^ Ge 3:4, 13; Jn 8:44; 1Th 3:5; 1Ti 2:14; Re 12:9, 15
  6. ^ 1Co 3:11
  7. ^ Ro 8:15
  8. ^ Ga 1:6
  9. ^ 2Co 11:1
  10. ^ Mr 7:9
  11. ^ 2Co 12:11; Ga 2:6
  12. ^ 1Co 1:17
  13. ^ 1Co 12:8; Eph 3:4
  14. ^ 2Co 4:2
  15. ^ 2Co 12:13
  16. ^ Ro 1:1; 2Co 2:12
  17. ^ Ac 18:3; 1Co 9:18
  18. ^ 1Co 4:12; 9:6; Pp 4:15, 18
  19. ^ 2Co 12:13f, 16
  20. ^ Ac 18:5
  21. ^ Ro 15:26; Pp 4:15-18
  22. ^ 2Co 12:13f, 16
  23. ^ Ro 1:9; 9:1; 2Co 1:23; Ga 2:20
  24. ^ 1Co 9:15
  25. ^ Ac 18:12
  26. ^ 2Co 12:15
  27. ^ Ro 1:9; 2Co 2:17; 11:31; 12:2f
  28. ^ 1Co 9:12
  29. ^ Ac 20:30; Ga 1:7; 2:4; Pp 1:15; Ti 1:10f; 2Pe 2:1; Re 2:2
  30. ^ Pp 3:2
  31. ^ Mt 4:10; Eph 6:12; Col 1:13
  32. ^ Col 1:12
  33. ^ Ro 2:6; 3:8
  34. ^ 2Co 11:1
  35. ^ 1Co 7:12, 25
  36. ^ 2Co 11:21
  37. ^ Pp 3:3f
  38. ^ 2Co 5:16
  39. ^ 1Co 4:10
  40. ^ 2Co 1:24; Ga 2:4; 4:3, 9; 5:1
  41. ^ Mr 12:40
  42. ^ 2Co 11:3; 12:16
  43. ^ 2Co 10:5
  44. ^ 1Co 4:11
  45. ^ 2Co 6:8
  46. ^ 2Co 10:10
  47. ^ 2Co 10:2
  48. ^ 2Co 11:17
  49. ^ Ac 6:1
  50. ^ Pp 3:5
  51. ^ Ro 9:4
  52. ^ Ro 9:4
  53. ^ Ga 3:16
  54. ^ Ro 11:1
  55. ^ 1Co 3:5; 2Co 3:6; 10:7
  56. ^ 1Co 15:10
  57. ^ 2Co 6:5
  58. ^ Ac 16:23; 2Co 6:5
  59. ^ Ro 8:36
  60. ^ De 25:3
  61. ^ Ac 16:22
  62. ^ Ac 14:19
  63. ^ Ac 9:23; 13:45, 50; 14:5; 17:5, 13; 18:12; 20:3, 19; 21:27; 23:10, 12; 25:3; 1Th 2:15
  64. ^ Ac 14:5, 19; 19:23ff; 27:42
  65. ^ Ac 21:31
  66. ^ Ga 2:4
  67. ^ 1Th 2:9; 2Th 3:8
  68. ^ 1Co 4:11; Pp 4:12
  69. ^ 2Co 6:5
  70. ^ 1Co 4:11
  71. ^ 1Co 7:17
  72. ^ 1Co 8:9, 13; 9:22
  73. ^ 1Co 2:3
  74. ^ Ro 1:25
  75. ^ 2Co 11:11
  76. ^ Ac 9:2
  77. ^ Ac 9:24
  78. ^ Ac 9:25

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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