2 Corinthians 11:1-9 ▼

1 Would you could bear with me a little in my vanity, but indeed you do bear with me.

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

3 but I fear lest by some means or other, as Eve was beguiled by the subtilly of the serpent, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is due to Christ.

4 if he that is come to you, preaches another Jesus whom I have not preached, or if ye receive other gifts of the spirit, than what ye have received from me, or another gospel, than what you have accepted, you might well bear with his pretensions:

5 for I think I am not at all inferior to the chiefest of the apostles.

6 if my language is inelegant, my knowledge is not contemptible; but has been fully display'd among you on all occasions.

7 If I have degraded myself for your advantage by preaching the holy gospel to you gratis, is that such a trespass?

8 by taking wages of other churches, I may have injured them, to do you service.

9 when I was present among you, and in want, I was chargeable to no man: for the brethren which came from Macedonia, supplied my necessities: and as I have, so I always shall keep myself from being burdensome to you.