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