2 Corinthians 11:1-9 ▼

1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are bearing with me.

2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, for I betrothed you to one husband, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

3 But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be corrupted from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

4 For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit which you did not receive, or a different gospel which you did not accept, you bear this beautifully.

5 For I consider myself in no way inferior to the most-eminent apostles.

6 But even if I am unskilled in word, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things.

7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you without charge?

8 I robbed other churches by taking wages from them to minister to you.

9 And when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brothers came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept and will keep myself from being a burden to you.