2 Corinthians 11:1-15 ▼

1 Would to God ye coulde haue suffred me a litle in my foolishnesse: and in dede ye do forbeare me.

2 For I am gelous ouer you, with Godly gelousie: For I haue coupled you to one man, to present you a chaste virgin vnto Christe.

3 But I feare lest by any meanes, that as the serpent begyled Eue through his subtiltie, euen so your myndes shoulde be corrupted fro the singlenesse that is towarde Christe.

4 For yf he that commeth, preacheth another Iesus, whom we haue not preached: or yf ye receaue another spirite whom ye haue not receaued: either another Gospell which ye haue not receaued, you woulde well haue suffered hym .

5 Ueryly I suppose that I was not behynde the chiefe Apostles.

6 But though I be rude in speakyng, yet not in knowledge, but in all thynges among you, we haue ben well knowen to the vtmost.

7 Dyd I sinne because I submitted my selfe, that ye myght be exalted, & because I preached to you the Gospell of God freely?

8 I robbed other Churches, takyng wages of them, to do you seruice.

9 And when I was present with you, and had nede, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lackyng vnto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied, and in all thynges I haue kept my selfe so that I shoulde not be chargeable to any man, and so wyll I kepe my selfe.

10 The trueth of Christe is in me, that this reioycyng shall not be shut vp agaynst me in the regions of Achaia.

11 Wherfore? Because I loue you not? God knoweth.

12 But what I do, that wyll I do, to cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they myght be founde lyke vnto vs, in yt wherin they gloried.

13 For such false Apostles are disceiptfull workers, transfourmed into ye Apostles of Christe.

14 And no maruayle, for Satan himselfe is transfourmed into an angel of lyght.

15 Therfore it is no great thyng though his ministers be transfourmed as the ministers of righteousnesse, whose ende shalbe accordyng to their workes.