ABP - II Corinthians - 11

11:1  I would you endure me a little folly; or even endure me.

11:2  For I am zealous for you with zeal of God. For I suited you to one husband [2virgin 1as a pure] to present to the Christ.

11:3  But I fear, perhaps as the serpent cheated Eve in his cleverness, so [2should be corrupted 1your thoughts] from the simplicity, of the one in the Christ.

11:4  For if indeed the one coming [2another 3Jesus 1to proclaim] whom we did not proclaim; or [3spirit 2another 1you received] which you did not receive from us; or [2good news 1another] which you did not receive -- well you withhold from it.

11:5  For I consider in nothing to be lacking of the more exceeding apostles.

11:6  And if even I be a common person in the communication, but I am not in the knowledge; but I am in every way making manifest in all things to you.

11:7  Or [2sin 1did I commit], [2myself 1humbling], that you should be exalted? that without charge [2the 3good news of God 1I announced good news] to you.

11:8  Other assemblies I robbed, taking a ration for your service;

11:9  and being at hand with you, and being lacking, I was not lax of anyone. For my deficiency [3filled up in addition 1the 2brethren], having come from Macedonia; and in everything [3easy 4to you 2myself 1I kept], and I will keep it so.

11:10  It is the truth of Christ in me, that this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia.

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

11:12  But what I do, also I shall do, that I should cut off the opportunity of the ones wanting an opportunity, that in what they boast, they should be found as also we.

11:13  For such ones are false apostles, [2workers 1deceitful], changing appearance into apostles of Christ.

11:14  For it is not surprising [3himself 1for 2Satan] to change appearance into an angel of light.

11:15  It is not a great thing then if even his servants change appearance as servants of righteousness; whom the end will be according to their works.

11:16  Again I say, no one should assume me to be a fool; but if not indeed, if as a fool receive me! that some a little I also should boast.

11:17  What I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this essence of boasting.

11:18  Since many boast according to the flesh, also I shall boast.

11:19  For with pleasure you endure fools, being practical.

11:20  For you endure if anyone reduce you to slavery, if anyone devours, if anyone takes, if anyone lifts up himself, if anyone [2you 3in 4the face 1flays].

11:21  According to dishonor I speak, as that we were weak. [2in 3which 4ever 1But] anyone should be daring, (in folly I speak) [2am daring 1I also].

11:22  They are Hebrews, I also. They are Israelites, I also. [2seed 3of Abraham 1They are], I also.

11:23  [2servants 3of Christ 1They are], (ranting I speak), above measure, I also in toils -- more exceedingly; in beatings -- above measure; in imprisonments -- more exceedingly; in deaths -- often.

11:24  By the Jews five times [2forty strokes 3save 4one 1I received].

11:25  Three times I was beaten with a rod; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; night and day in the deep I have spent;

11:26  in journeys often; in dangers of rivers; in dangers of robbers; in dangers from my race; in dangers from nations; in dangers in the city; in dangers in desolate places; in dangers in the sea; in dangers among false brethren;

11:27  in toil and trouble; in sleeplessnesses often; in hunger and thirst; in fastings often; in chilliness and nakedness.

11:28  Separate from the things outwardly, there is the conspiring against me in the daily anxiety concerning all the assemblies.

11:29  Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I am not on fire?

11:30  If [2boast 1I must], [2in the things 3of my weakness 1I will boast].

11:31  The God and father of the Lord Jesus Christ knows, the one being blessed into the eons, that I do not lie.

11:32  In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, [2to lay hold 3of me 1wanting];

11:33  and through a window in a cord basket I was let down through the wall, and I fled from his hands.