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2Cor 11:1: Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

2Cor 11:2: For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

2Cor 11:3: But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2Cor 11:4: For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

2Cor 11:5: For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

2Cor 11:6: But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

2Cor 11:7: Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

2Cor 11:8: I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

2Cor 11:9: And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

2Cor 11:10: As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

2Cor 11:11: Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

2Cor 11:12: But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

2Cor 11:13: For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

2Cor 11:14: And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

2Cor 11:15: Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.