11:1 Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.
11:2 For 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.
11:3 But 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.
11:4 For 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.
11:5 For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.
11:6 But 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.
11:7 Or 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?
11:9 And 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.
11:10 As 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.
11:11 Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.
11:12 But 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.
11:14 And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.
11:15 So 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.
11:16 I 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.
11:17 What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.
11:18 Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.
11:19 For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.
11:20 You 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.
11:21 I 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.
11:22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
11:23 Are 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.
11:24 Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one.
11:25 Three 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;
