2 Corinthians 11:1-9 ▼

1 I wish that you would endure a small amount of my foolishness, so as to bear with me.

2 For I am jealous toward you, with the jealousy of God. And I have espoused you to one husband, offering you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

3 But I am afraid lest, as the serpent led astray Eve by his cleverness, so your minds might be corrupted and might fall away from the simplicity which is in Christ.

4 For if anyone arrives preaching another Christ, one whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, one whom you have not received; or another Gospel, one which you have not been given: you might permit him to guide you.

5 For I consider that I have done nothing less than the great Apostles.

6 For although I may be unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But, in all things, we have been made manifest to you.

7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you would be exalted? For I preached the Gospel of God to you freely.

8 I have taken from other churches, receiving a stipend from them to the benefit of your ministry.

9 And when I was with you and in need, I was burdensome to no one. For the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied whatever was lacking to me. And in all things, I have kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.