2 Corinthians 11 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Paul Defends His Apostleship

2Co 11:1Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.

2Co 11:2For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.

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2Co 11:3But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

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2Co 11:4For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.

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2Co 11:5For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

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2Co 11:6But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

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2Co 11:7Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?

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2Co 11:8I took money from other churches as payment for my work, so that I might be your servant;

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2Co 11:9And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.

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2Co 11:10As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.

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2Co 11:11Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

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2Co 11:12But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.

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2Co 11:13For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.

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2Co 11:14And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.

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2Co 11:15So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.

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2Co 11:16I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.

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2Co 11:17What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.

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2Co 11:18Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.

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2Co 11:19For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.

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2Co 11:20You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.

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2Co 11:21I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.

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2Co 11:22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

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2Co 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

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2Co 11:24Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one.

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2Co 11:25Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water;

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2Co 11:26In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

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2Co 11:27In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

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2Co 11:28In addition to all the other things, there is that which comes on me every day, the care of all the churches.

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2Co 11:29Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?

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2Co 11:30If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.

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2Co 11:31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be praise for ever, is witness that the things which I say are true.

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2Co 11:32In Damascus, the ruler under Aretas the king kept watch over the town of the people of Damascus, in order to take me:

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2Co 11:33And being let down in a basket from the wall through a window, I got free from his hands.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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