--- title: "2 Corinthians 11:1-47 KJV - \"Would to God ye could bear with me a l...\" | Real Bible Believers" description: "\"Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: f\" — Read 2 Corinthians 11:1-47 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon." image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/2-corinthians/11/1-47" --- [ Read](/kjv/2-corinthians/11)[ Commentary](/study/2-corinthians/11)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/2-corinthians/11) Audio ## 2 Corinthians 11:1-47 in Context (Verses 1–33 KJV) [1 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/1) Would to God ye could bear with me a little in *my* folly: and indeed bear with me. [2 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/2) For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present *you as* a chaste virgin to Christ. [3 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/3) 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. [4 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/4) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or *if* ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with *him*. [5 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/5) For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. [6 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/6) But though *I be* rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. [7 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/7) Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? [8 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/8) I robbed other churches, taking wages *of them*, to do you service. [9 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/9) 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 *things* I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and *so* will I keep *myself*. [10 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/10) As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. [11 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/11) Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. [12 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/12) 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. [13 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/13) For such *are* false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. [14 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/14) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. [15 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/15) Therefore *it is* no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. [16 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/16) 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. [17 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/17) That which I speak, I speak *it* not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. [18 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/18) Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. [19 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/19) For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye *yourselves* are wise. [20 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/20) For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour *you*, if a man take *of you*, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. [21 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/21) I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. [22 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/22) Are they Hebrews? so *am* I. Are they Israelites? so *am* I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so *am* I. [23 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/23) Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I *am* more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. [24 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/24) Of the Jews five times received I forty *stripes* save one. [25 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/25) 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; [26 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/26) *In* journeyings often, *in* perils of waters, *in* perils of robbers, *in* perils by *mine own* countrymen, *in* perils by the heathen, *in* perils in the city, *in* perils in the wilderness, *in* perils in the sea, *in* perils among false brethren; [27 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/27) In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. [28 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/28) Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. [29 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/29) Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? [30 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/30) If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. [31 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/31) The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. [32 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/32) In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: [33 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/33) And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. 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