2 Corinthians 11:1-15

Darby Translation

11 Would that ye would bear with me [in] a little folly; but indeed bear with me.

² For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy [which is] of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present [you] a chaste virgin to Christ.

³ But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, [so] your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.

⁴ For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with [it].

⁵ For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.

⁶ But if [I am] a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making [the truth] manifest in all things to you.

⁷ Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that *ye* might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?

⁸ I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry towards you.

⁹ And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.

¹⁰ [The] truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.

¹¹ Why? because I do not love you? God knows.

¹² But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing [for] an opportunity, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.

¹³ For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

¹⁴ And [it is] not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.

¹⁵ It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.