| 11:1 |
I wish that you would endure a small amount of my foolishness, so as to bear with me. |
| 11:2 |
For I am jealous toward you, with the jealousy of God. And I have espoused you to one husband, offering you as a chaste virgin to Christ. |
| 11:3 |
But I am afraid lest, as the serpent led astray Eve by his cleverness, so your minds might be corrupted and might fall away from the simplicity which is in Christ. |
| 11:4 |
For if anyone arrives preaching another Christ, one whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, one whom you have not received; or another Gospel, one which you have not been given: you might permit him to guide you. |
| 11:5 |
For I consider that I have done nothing less than the great Apostles. |
| 11:6 |
For although I may be unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But, in all things, we have been made manifest to you. |
| 11:7 |
Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you would be exalted? For I preached the Gospel of God to you freely. |
| 11:8 |
I have taken from other churches, receiving a stipend from them to the benefit of your ministry. |
| 11:9 |
And when I was with you and in need, I was burdensome to no one. For the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied whatever was lacking to me. And in all things, I have kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you. |
| 11:10 |
The truth of Christ is in me, and so this glorying shall not be broken away from me in the regions of Achaia. |
| 11:11 |
Why so? Is it because I do not love you? God knows I do. |
