2 Corinthians 11

1I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.Cross-references: Num 11:29 · Josh 7:7 · 2Ki 5:3 · Matt 17:17 · Acts 18:14 · Acts 26:29 · +11 more

2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.Cross-references: Gen 24:2 · Gen 24:58 · Lev 21:13 · Ps 45:10 · Isa 54:5 · Isa 62:4 · +12 more

3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.Cross-references: Gen 3:4 · Gen 3:13 · Ps 119:53 · Matt 24:24 · John 8:44 · Acts 20:30 · +36 more

4For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.Cross-references: Acts 4:12 · Rom 8:15 · 1Cor 3:11 · 1Cor 12:4 · Gal 1:6 · Gal 3:2 · +2 more

5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.Cross-references: 1Cor 15:10 · 2Cor 12:11 · Gal 2:6

6But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.Cross-references: 1Cor 1:17 · 1Cor 1:21 · 1Cor 2:1 · 1Cor 2:13 · 2Cor 4:2 · 2Cor 5:11 · +5 more

7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?Cross-references: Acts 18:1 · Acts 20:34 · 1Cor 4:10 · 1Cor 9:6 · 1Cor 9:12 · 1Cor 9:14 · +4 more

8I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.Cross-references: 2Cor 11:9 · Phil 4:14 · Phil 4:18

9When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.Cross-references: Neh 5:15 · Acts 18:3 · Acts 20:33 · 2Cor 6:4 · 2Cor 8:1 · 2Cor 9:12 · +7 more

10As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.Cross-references: Acts 18:12 · Acts 18:27 · Rom 1:9 · Rom 9:1 · Rom 16:5 · 1Cor 9:15 · +14 more

11Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.Cross-references: Josh 22:22 · Ps 44:21 · John 2:24 · John 21:17 · Acts 15:8 · 2Cor 6:11 · +7 more

12But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.Cross-references: Job 23:13 · 1Cor 5:6 · 1Cor 9:12 · 2Cor 1:17 · 2Cor 5:12 · 2Cor 10:17 · +6 more

13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.Cross-references: Matt 25:24 · Acts 15:1 · Acts 15:24 · Acts 20:30 · Rom 16:18 · 2Cor 2:17 · +27 moreExamined: Mormonism →

14And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.Cross-references: Gen 3:1 · Matt 4:1 · 2Cor 2:11 · 2Cor 11:3 · Gal 1:8 · Rev 12:9Examined: Mormonism →

15It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.Cross-references: 2Ki 5:13 · Isa 9:14 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 23:14 · Jer 28:15 · Jer 29:32 · +22 more

16I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.Cross-references: 2Cor 11:1 · 2Cor 11:19 · 2Cor 11:21 · 2Cor 12:6 · 2Cor 12:11

17That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.Cross-references: 1Cor 7:6 · 1Cor 7:12 · 1Cor 7:25 · 2Cor 9:4 · 2Cor 11:18 · Phil 3:3

18Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.Cross-references: Jer 9:23 · 1Cor 4:10 · 2Cor 10:12 · 2Cor 11:12 · 2Cor 11:21 · 2Cor 12:5 · +4 more

19For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.Cross-references: 1Cor 4:10 · 1Cor 8:1 · 1Cor 10:15 · Rev 3:17

20For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.Cross-references: Isa 50:6 · Lam 3:30 · Luke 6:29 · Rom 16:17 · 1Cor 4:11 · 2Cor 1:24 · +9 more

21To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.Cross-references: 2Cor 10:1 · 2Cor 10:10 · 2Cor 11:17 · 2Cor 11:22 · 2Cor 13:10 · Phil 3:3

22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.Cross-references: Gen 17:8 · Ex 3:18 · Ex 5:3 · Ex 7:16 · Ex 9:1 · Ex 9:13 · +9 more

23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.Cross-references: Acts 9:16 · Acts 14:19 · Acts 16:23 · Acts 20:23 · Acts 21:11 · Acts 24:26 · +32 more

24Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.Cross-references: Deut 25:2 · Matt 10:17 · Mark 13:9

25Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.Cross-references: Matt 21:35 · Acts 7:58 · Acts 14:5 · Acts 14:19 · Acts 16:22 · Acts 16:33 · +4 more

26I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;Cross-references: Acts 9:23 · Acts 11:25 · Acts 13:1 · Acts 13:50 · Acts 14:5 · Acts 14:19 · +21 more

27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.Cross-references: Jer 38:9 · Acts 13:2 · Acts 14:23 · Acts 20:5 · Acts 20:31 · Acts 20:34 · +10 more

28Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.Cross-references: Acts 15:36 · Acts 15:40 · Acts 18:23 · Acts 20:2 · Acts 20:18 · Rom 1:14 · +5 more

29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?Cross-references: Num 25:6 · Ezra 9:1 · Neh 5:6 · Neh 13:15 · Neh 13:23 · John 2:17 · +28 more

30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.Cross-references: Prov 25:27 · Prov 27:2 · Jer 9:23 · 1Cor 2:3 · 2Cor 11:16 · 2Cor 12:1 · +2 more

31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.Cross-references: Neh 9:5 · Ps 41:13 · John 10:30 · John 20:17 · Rom 1:9 · Rom 1:25 · +15 more

32In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.Cross-references: Acts 9:24 · 2Cor 11:26

33I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.Cross-references: Josh 2:18 · 1Sam 19:12 · Acts 9:25