The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Corinthians 11
the brothers, when they came from Macedonia,
supplied the measure of my need.
In everything I kept myself from being
burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no
one will stop me from this boasting in the
regions of Achaia.
11 Why? Because I don’t love you? God
knows.
12 But whatI do,thatI will continue to do,
that I may cut off opportunity from those
who desire an opportunity, that in which
they boast, they may be recognized just
like us.
13 For such men are false apostles,
deceitful workers, masquerading
as Christ’s apostles.
14 And no wonder, for even Satan
masquerades as an angel of light.
15 It is no great thing therefore if his
servants also masquerade as servants of
righteousness, whose end will be
according to their works.
16 I say again, let no one think me foolish.
But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I
also may boast a little.
17 That which I speak, I don’t
speak according to the Lord,
but as in foolishness, in this
confidence of boasting.
18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh,
I will also boast.
19 For you bear with the foolish gladly,
being wise.
20 For you bear with a man if he brings
you into bondage, if he devours you, if he
takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if
he strikes you on the face.
21 Tomy shame,I speak as though wehad
been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is
bold (I speak infoolishness),I ambold also.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they
Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring†
of Abraham? So am I.
23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak
as one beside himself.) I am more so: in
labors more abundantly, in prisons more
abundantly, in stripes above measure, and
in deaths often.
24 Five times I received forty stripes
minus one from the Jews.
25 Three times I was beaten with rods.
Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered
shipwreck. I have been a night and a day
in the deep.
26 I have been in travels often, perils of
rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my
countrymen, perils from the Gentiles,
perils in the city, perils in the
wilderness, perils in the sea,
perils among false brothers;
27 in labor and travail, in watchings
often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often,
and in cold and nakedness.
28 Besides those things that are outside,
there is that which presses on me daily:
anxiety for all the assemblies.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who
is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with
indignation?
30 IfI must boast,I will boast ofthe things
that concern my weakness.
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus
Christ, he who is blessed forever more,
knows that I don’t lie.
32 In Damascus the governor under King
Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city,
desiring to arrest me.
33 I was let down in a basket through
a window by the wall, and escaped his
hands.