2 Corinthians 11:1-9 ▼

1 Would that ye could bear with me in some little foolishness! Yea, indeed, ye do bear with me.

2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy; for I espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ;

3 but I fear lest, by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and purity which is toward Christ.

4 For, if he that comes preaches another Jesus, Whom we did not preach; or, if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different Gospel, which ye did not accept; well do ye bear with him .

5 For I reckon that I am in no respect behind the most eminent apostles.

6 And, though I be rude in speech, yet am I not rude in knowledge; but in every way having manifested it toward you in all things.

7 Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself, that ye might be exalted, because I proclaimed to you the Gospel of God without cost?

8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages of them , that I might minister to you;

9 and, being present with you, and being in want, I was a burden to no one; for the brethren, coming from Macedonia, supplied my lack; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will keep myself .