{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/2-corinthians/11","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T04:21:06.578Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"2 Corinthians","bookSlug":"2-corinthians","chapter":11,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":10,"nextChapter":12,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Would to God ye could bear with me a little in <i>my</i> folly: and indeed bear with me."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present <i>you as</i> a chaste virgin to Christ."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or <i>if</i> ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with <i>him</i>."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But though <i>I be</i> rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"I robbed other churches, taking wages <i>of them</i>, to do you service."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all <i>things</i> I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and <i>so</i> will I keep <i>myself</i>."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For such <i>are</i> false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Therefore <i>it is</i> no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"That which I speak, I speak <i>it</i> not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye <i>yourselves</i> are wise."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour <i>you</i>, if a man take <i>of you</i>, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Are they Hebrews? so <i>am</i> I. Are they Israelites? so <i>am</i> I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so <i>am</i> I."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I <i>am</i> more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Of the Jews five times received I forty <i>stripes</i> save one."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"<i>In</i> journeyings often, <i>in</i> perils of waters, <i>in</i> perils of robbers, <i>in</i> perils by <i>mine own</i> countrymen, <i>in</i> perils by the heathen, <i>in</i> perils in the city, <i>in</i> perils in the wilderness, <i>in</i> perils in the sea, <i>in</i> perils among false brethren;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands."}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 11 (KJV)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 11](https://primebible.com/kjv/2-corinthians/11)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/2-corinthians/11 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}