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Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 11

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2 Corinthians 11 RSV - Revised Standard Version2 Corinthians 11 RSV - Revised Standard Version

Chapter 11 of 2 Corinthians—Revised Standard Version (RSV)

  1. ¶ I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!
  2. I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to Christ to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.
  3. But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
  4. For if some one comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you submit to it readily enough.
  5. I think that I am not in the least inferior to these superlative apostles.
  6. Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not in knowledge; in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.
  7. ¶ Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God’s gospel without cost to you?
  8. I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
  9. And when I was with you and was in want, I did not burden any one, for my needs were supplied by the brethren who came from Macedo′nia. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.
  10. As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast of mine shall not be silenced in the regions of Acha′ia.
  11. And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
  12. ¶ And what I do I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.
  13. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
  14. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
  15. So it is not strange if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
  16. ¶ I repeat, let no one think me foolish; but even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
  17. (What I am saying I say not with the Lord’s authority but as a fool, in this boastful confidence;
  18. since many boast of worldly things, I too will boast.)
  19. For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves!
  20. For you bear it if a man makes slaves of you, or preys upon you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.
  21. To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that!
    ¶ But whatever any one dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that.
  22. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
  23. Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
  24. Five times I have received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one.
  25. Three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. Three times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been adrift at sea;
  26. on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren;
  27. in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
  28. And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches.
  29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?
  30. ¶ If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
  31. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie.
  32. At Damascus, the governor under King Ar′etas guarded the city of Damascus in order to seize me,
  33. but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped his hands.

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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. 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

  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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