\subsection{II Corinthians 11}
\VS{1} O that you would bear with me [a] little of [my] folly, and indeed be bearing with me. 
\VS{2} For I am zealous concerning you with [the] zeal of God, for I 
betrothed you to one man to present you virgin, pure, to Christ. 
\VS{3} But I fear lest, as the snake deceived Eve in his cunning, your thoughts be 
corrupted from the simplicity\footnote{or ``sincerity''} and the purity for 
Christ. 
\VS{4} For if another [one] coming proclaims [a] Jesus whom we did not 
proclaim, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or 
another good-news which you did not accept, you bear with [him] well. 
\VS{5} For 
I reckon [I am] inferior in nothing to the chief of [the] apostles. 
\VS{6} So if [I am a] 
layman in word, [I am] not in knowledge, but in everything being manifested in 
everything to you. 
\VS{7} What sin did I, humbling myself in order that you 
be exalted, because freely I good-newsed to you the good-news of God? 
\VS{8} I robbed other assembliesy\fnEkklhsia{}, taking pay for your service, 
\VS{9} and being present with you and having lack, I burdened \negd{no one}, for the 
brothers having come from Macedonia filled up my lack, and in everything I 
kept myself no burden to you, and I will keep [it so]. 
\VS{10} The truth of Christ 
is in me, that this boasting will not be stopped in me in the regions of 
Achaia. 
\VS{11} Why? Because I do not agape-love you? God knows [I do]. 
\VS{12} But what I do, I will also do, in order that I cut off pretext of those 
wishing pretext, in order that in what they boast, they be found just as me 
also. 
\VS{13} For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising 
themselves into apostles of Christ. 
\VS{14} And no marvel, for Satan himself 
disguises himself into [an] angel of light. 
\VS{15} [it is] no big [thing] therefore if his 
servants also disguise themselves as servants of justness; of whom the end 
will be according to their works. 
\VS{16} Again I say, let no one suppose me 
to be foolish; otherwise, even as [a] fool receive me, in order that I also may 
boast [a] little. 
\VS{17} What I speak, I speak not according to [the] Lord, but as 
in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. 
\VS{18} Since many boast 
according to the flesh, I also will boast. 
\VS{19} For you gladly bear with 
the foolish, [you] being wise! 
\VS{20} For you bear with [it] if someone enslaves 
you, if someone devours [you], if someone takes [from you], if someone be presumptuous, if 
anyone strikes you on [the] face. 
\VS{21} I say according to dishonor, as if we 
had been weak. But in whatever anyone is bold --- in foolishness I speak --- 
I am also bold. 
\VS{22} Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I 
also. Are they seed of Abraham? I also. 
\VS{23} Are they servants of Christ? 
Being beside myself I speak: I more, in labors more abundant, in prisons 
more frequent, in stripes beyond measure, in deaths often. 
\VS{24} By the 
Jews five times I received forty [stripes] save one, 
\VS{25} thrice I was beaten with 
rods, once I was stoned, thrice I was shipwrecked, a night and a day have I 
been in the deep\footnote{i.e. in the sea}, 
\VS{26} in journeys often, in 
perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from [my] kinsmen, in perils 
from [the] nations\footnote{the Gentiles}, in perils in [the] city, in perils in [the] wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false-brothers, 
\VS{27} in toil and labor, in watchings\footnote{or ``sleepless nights''} often, 
in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and destitution; 
\VS{28} apart from the external, the daily pressure on me, the anxiety of all the 
assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}. 
\VS{29} Who is weak and I am not weak [too]? Who is stumbled and I am 
not incensed? 
\VS{30} If it is necessary to be boasting, I will boast of the 
[things] of my weakness. 
\VS{31} The God and father of our Lord Jesus knows, who is 
blessed to eternity, that I do not lie. 
\VS{32} In Damascus the governor 
under Aretas the king guarded the city of Damascus to seize me, 
\VS{33} and through [a] window in [a] basket I was lowered through the wall 
and escaped their hands.
