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2 CORINTHIANS 11
C. By His Jealousy for Christ

1. I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you do bear with me.
2. For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
3. But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your thoughts would be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity toward Christ.
4. For if indeed he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit, which you have not received, or a different gospel, which you have not accepted, you bear well with him.
5. But I count myself to be inferior to the super- apostles in nothing.
6. But even if I am a layman in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; indeed in every way we have made this manifest in all things to you.
7. Or did I commit a sin, abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I announced the gospel of God to you free of charge?
8. I robbed other churches, taking wages for the ministry to you.
9. And when I was present with you and lacked, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia filled up my lack, and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and will keep myself.
10. The truthfulness of Christ is in me, that this boasting shall not be stopped as it regards me in the regions of Achaia.
11. Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.
12. But what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those desiring an opportunity, that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
13. For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transfiguring themselves into apostles of Christ.
14. And no wonder, for Satan himself transfigures himself into an angel of light.
15. Therefore it is no great thing if also his ministers transfigure themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.