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Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 11

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2 Corinthians 11 NWT - New World Translation2 Corinthians 11 NWT - New World Translation

Chapter 11 of 2 Corinthians—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ I wish YOU would put up with me in some little unreasonableness.1 But, in fact, YOU are putting up with me!
  2. For I am jealous over YOU with a godly jealousy,2 for I personally promised YOU in marriage3 to one husband4 that I might present YOU as a chaste5 virgin to the Christ.6
  3. But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent seduced Eve7 by its cunning, YOUR minds might be corrupted8 away from the sincerity and the chastity that are due the Christ.9
  4. For, as it is, if someone comes and preaches a Jesus other than the one we preached,10 or YOU receive a spirit other than what YOU received,11 or good news12 other than what YOU accepted, YOU easily put up [with him].13
  5. For I consider that I have not in a single thing proved inferior14 to YOUR superfine15 apostles.
  6. But even if I am unskilled in speech,16 I certainly am not in knowledge;17 but in every way we manifested [it] to YOU in all things.18
  7. ¶ Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself19 that YOU might be exalted, because without cost20 I gladly declared the good news of God to YOU?
  8. Other congregations I robbed by accepting provisions in order to minister to YOU;21
  9. and yet when I was present with YOU and I fell in need, I did not become a burden to a single one,22 for the brothers that came from Mac·e·doʹni·a23 abundantly supplied my deficiency. Yes, in every way I kept myself unburdensome to YOU and will keep myself so.24
  10. It is a truth25 of Christ in my case that no stop shall be put to this boasting26 of mine in the regions of A·chaʹia.
  11. For what reason? Because I do not love YOU? God knows [I do].27
  12. ¶ Now what I am doing I will still do,28 that I may cut off the pretext from those who are wanting a pretext for being found equal to us in the office of which they boast.
  13. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers,29 transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.30
  14. And no wonder, for Satan himself keeps transforming himself into an angel of light.31
  15. It is therefore nothing great if his ministers32 also keep transforming themselves into ministers of righteousness. But their end shall be according to their works.33
  16. ¶ I say again, Let no man think I am unreasonable. Still, if YOU really do, accept me even if as unreasonable, that I too may do some little boasting.34
  17. What I speak I speak, not after the Lord’s example, but as in unreasonableness, in this cocksureness peculiar to boasting.35
  18. Since many are boasting according to the flesh,36 I too will boast.
  19. For YOU gladly put up with the unreasonable persons, seeing YOU are reasonable.
  20. In fact, YOU put up with whoever enslaves YOU,37 whoever devours [what YOU have], whoever grabs [what YOU have], whoever exalts himself over [YOU], whoever strikes YOU in the face.38
  21. ¶ I say this to [our] dishonor, as though our position had been weak.
    ¶ But if anyone else acts bold in something—I am talking unreasonably39—I too am acting bold in it.
  22. Are they Hebrews? I am one also.40 Are they Israelites? I am one also. Are they Abraham’s seed? I am also.41
  23. Are they ministers of Christ? I reply like a madman, I am more outstandingly one:42 in labors more plentifully,43 in prisons more plentifully,44 in blows to an excess, in near-deaths often.45
  24. By Jews I five times received forty strokes46 less one,
  25. three times I was beaten with rods,47 once I was stoned,48 three times I experienced shipwreck,49 a night and a day I have spent in the deep;
  26. in journeys often, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from highwaymen,50 in dangers from [my own] race,51 in dangers from the nations,52 in dangers in the city,53 in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers,
  27. in labor and toil, in sleepless nights54 often, in hunger and thirst,55 in abstinence from food56 many times, in cold and nakedness.
  28. ¶ Besides those things of an external kind, there is what rushes in on me from day to day, the anxiety for all the congregations.57
  29. Who is weak,58 and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I am not incensed?
  30. ¶ If boasting there must be, I will boast59 of the things having to do with my weakness.
  31. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, even the One who is to be praised[a] forever, knows I am not lying.
  32. In Damascus the governor[b] under A·reʹtas the king was guarding the city of the Dam·a·scenesʹ to seize me,60
  33. but through a window in the wall I was lowered in a wicker basket61 and escaped his hands.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “who is blessed.”
  2. ^ Lit., “the ethnarch.” Gr., ho e·thnarʹkhes.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 2Co 5:13
  2. ^ Pp 1:8
  3. ^ Re 21:2, 9; 22:17
  4. ^ Mr 2:19
  5. ^ Eph 5:27; Col 1:28
  6. ^ Le 21:13; Eph 5:23
  7. ^ Ge 3:4; 1Ti 2:14
  8. ^ Jn 8:44; 1Ti 6:5; Heb 13:9; 2Pe 3:17; 2Jo 8
  9. ^ 1Co 6:15
  10. ^ Ga 1:7
  11. ^ 1Jo 4:3
  12. ^ Ga 1:8
  13. ^ Pp 2:21; 2Jo 10
  14. ^ 1Co 15:10; 2Co 11:23
  15. ^ 2Co 12:11; Ga 2:6
  16. ^ Ex 4:10; 2Co 10:10
  17. ^ 1Co 2:13
  18. ^ Eph 3:4
  19. ^ 1Co 2:3; 2Co 10:1
  20. ^ Ac 18:3; 1Co 9:18
  21. ^ Pp 4:10
  22. ^ 2Co 12:13
  23. ^ Pp 4:15
  24. ^ 1Th 2:9
  25. ^ Ro 9:1
  26. ^ 1Co 9:15
  27. ^ 2Co 6:11; 7:3; 12:15
  28. ^ 1Co 9:12
  29. ^ Ps 101:7; 119:118; Ac 5:3; Eph 4:14
  30. ^ Ro 16:18; 2Co 2:17; 2Pe 2:1
  31. ^ Ga 1:8; 2Th 2:9
  32. ^ Jn 8:44
  33. ^ Mt 16:27; Ro 2:6; Ga 5:10; Pp 3:19; 2Ti 4:14
  34. ^ 2Co 10:8
  35. ^ 1Co 3:21
  36. ^ Pp 3:4
  37. ^ Ga 2:4; 4:9; 5:1
  38. ^ Pp 3:19
  39. ^ 2Co 5:13; 12:11
  40. ^ Ac 22:3
  41. ^ Ro 11:1; Pp 3:5
  42. ^ 2Co 11:5
  43. ^ Ro 11:13; 1Co 15:10
  44. ^ Ac 16:24
  45. ^ Ac 9:16; 2Co 6:4; 1Pe 2:21
  46. ^ De 25:3
  47. ^ Ac 16:22
  48. ^ Ac 14:19
  49. ^ Ac 27:41
  50. ^ Ac 20:3
  51. ^ Ac 23:10
  52. ^ Ac 14:5
  53. ^ Ac 13:50
  54. ^ Ac 20:31
  55. ^ 1Co 4:11
  56. ^ 2Co 6:5
  57. ^ 2Co 2:4; Col 2:1
  58. ^ 1Co 9:22
  59. ^ 2Co 12:5
  60. ^ Ac 9:24
  61. ^ 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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