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Paul's Jealousy for Christ and the Deception of False Apostles

2 Corinthians 11:1-15

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Chapter 11
1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed bear with me. 2 For I am zealous for you with God's zeal, for I betrothed you to one man as a pure virgin to present to Christ. 3 But I fear that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his cunning, your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity and purity that is toward Christ. 4 For if someone comes and preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or if you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not accept, you put up with it well. 5 For I reckon that I have lacked nothing as an apostle compared to the superabundant apostles. 6 But even if unskilled in word, yet not in knowledge, yet in everything we have made this manifest among you in all things. 7 Did I sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them for your ministry. 9 And when I was present with you and in need, I did not burden anyone; for what I lacked, the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied. In everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and I will keep doing so. 10 It is the truth in Christ: this boasting will not be shut to me in the regions of Achaia. 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows. 12 But what I am doing, I will continue to do, in order to cut off the opportunity from those who want an opportunity, in order that in what they boast they may be found just as we are. 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if even his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.