2 Corinthians 11:1-15

21st Century King James Version

11 Would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly — and indeed you do bear with me.

² For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy; for I have espoused you to one Husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

³ But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

⁴ For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit which ye have not received, or another gospel which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

⁵ For I consider myself not a whit lower than the very chiefest apostles.

⁶ Though I am rude in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; for we have been made thoroughly manifest among you in all things.

⁷ Have I committed an offense in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the Gospel of God without charge?

⁸ I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to do you service.

⁹ And when I was present with you and was in want, I was burdensome to no man, for that which I lacked the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied; and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will I keep myself.

¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

¹¹ Why so? Because I love you not? God knoweth!

¹² But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion, that wherein they glory they may be found even as we.

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

¹⁴ And no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

¹⁵ Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.