2 Corinthians 11

¹Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.

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

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

⁴For if he that cometh preacheth 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, ye do well to bear with him.

⁵For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

⁶But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made this manifest unto you in all things.

⁷Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

⁸I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;

⁹and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

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

¹¹Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.