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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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2CO-1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,

and Timothy

[our] brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with

all the saints

which are in all Achaia:

2CO-1:2 Grace [be] to you and peace from God our Father, and

[from] the Lord

Jesus Christ.

2CO-1:3 Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus

Christ, the

Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

2CO-1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may

be able to

comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith

we ourselves

are comforted of God.

2CO-1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our

consolation also

aboundeth by Christ.

2CO-1:6 And whether we be afflicted, [it is] for your

consolation and

salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same

sufferings which we

also suffer: or whether we be comforted, [it is] for your

consolation and

salvation.

2CO-1:7 And our hope of you [is] stedfast, knowing, that as ye

are partakers

of the sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the consolation.

2CO-1:8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our

trouble which

came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above

strength,

insomuch that we despaired even of life:

2CO-1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we

should not

trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

2CO-1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth

deliver: in whom we

trust that he will yet deliver [us];

2CO-1:11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for

the gift

[bestowed] upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be

given by many on

our behalf.

2CO-1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our

conscience, that in

simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by

the grace of

God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more

abundantly to

you-ward.

2CO-1:13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye

read or

acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

2CO-1:14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are

your rejoicing,

even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2CO-1:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you

before, that ye

might have a second benefit;

2CO-1:16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again

out of

Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward

Judaea.

2CO-1:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness?

or the things

that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with

me there should

be yea yea, and nay nay?

2CO-1:18 But [as] God [is] true, our word toward you was not

yea and nay.

2CO-1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached

among you by us,

[even] by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay,

but in him was

yea.

2CO-1:20 For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in

him Amen, unto

the glory of God by us.

2CO-1:21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and

hath anointed

us, [is] God;

2CO-1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the

Spirit in our

hearts.

2CO-1:23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to

spare you I

came not as yet unto Corinth.

2CO-1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are

helpers of

your joy: for by faith ye stand.

2CO-2:1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not

come again to you

in heaviness.

2CO-2:2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me

glad, but the

same which is made sorry by me?

2CO-2:3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I

should have

sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence

in you all,

that my joy is [the joy] of you all.

2CO-2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote

unto you with

many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might

know the love

which I have more abundantly unto you.

2CO-2:5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me,

but in part:

that I may not overcharge you all.

2CO-2:6 Sufficient to such a man [is] this punishment, which

[was inflicted]

of many.

2CO-2:7 So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive [him],

and comfort

[him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with

overmuch sorrow.

2CO-2:8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your]

love toward him.

2CO-2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the

proof of you,

whether ye be obedient in all things.

2CO-2:10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I [forgive] also: for if

I forgave any

thing, to whom I forgave [it], for your sakes [forgave I it] in

the person of

Christ;

2CO-2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are

not ignorant of

his devices.

2CO-2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to [preach] Christ's

gospel, and a

door was opened unto me of the Lord,

2CO-2:13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus

my brother:

but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

2CO-2:14 Now thanks [be] unto God, which always causeth us to

triumph in

Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in

every place.

2CO-2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them

that are

saved, and in them that perish:

2CO-2:16 To the one [we are] the savour of death unto death;

and to the other

the savour of life unto life. And who [is] sufficient for these

things?

2CO-2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God:

but as of

sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

2CO-3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as

some [others],

epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation

from you?

2CO-3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and

read of all men:

2CO-3:3 [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the

epistle of Christ

ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of

the living God;

not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

2CO-3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

2CO-3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any

thing as of

ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;

2CO-3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new

testament; not of the

letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the

spirit giveth life.

2CO-3:7 But if the ministration of death, written [and]

engraven in stones,

was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not

stedfastly behold the

face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory]

was to be done

away:

2CO-3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather

glorious?

2CO-3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory,

much more doth

the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

2CO-3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in

this respect,

by reason of the glory that excelleth.

2CO-3:11 For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much

more that which

remaineth [is] glorious.

2CO-3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great

plainness of

speech:

2CO-3:13 And not as Moses, [which] put a veil over his face,

that the

children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that

which is

abolished:

2CO-3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day

remaineth the same

veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which

[veil] is done

away in Christ.

2CO-3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil

is upon their

heart.

2CO-3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil

shall be taken

away.

2CO-3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of

the Lord [is],

there [is] liberty.

2CO-3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the

glory of the

Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory,

[even] as by the

Spirit of the Lord.

2CO-4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have

received mercy, we

faint not;

2CO-4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not

walking in

craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by

manifestation of

the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the

sight of God.

2CO-4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are

lost:

2CO-4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of

them which

believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,

who is the image

of God, should shine unto them.

2CO-4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord;

and ourselves

your servants for Jesus' sake.

2CO-4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of

darkness, hath

shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of

the glory of God

in the face of Jesus Christ.

2CO-4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the

excellency of

the power may be of God, and not of us.

2CO-4:8 [We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed;

[we are]

perplexed, but not in despair;

2CO-4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not

destroyed;

2CO-4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord

Jesus, that

the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

2CO-4:11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for

Jesus' sake,

that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal

flesh.

2CO-4:12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

2CO-4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is

written, I

believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and

therefore speak;

2CO-4:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall

raise up us

also by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.

2CO-4:15 For all things [are] for your sakes, that the abundant

grace might

through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

2CO-4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward

man perish, yet

the inward [man] is renewed day by day.

2CO-4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,

worketh for us

a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;

2CO-4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at

the things

which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal;

but the

things which are not seen [are] eternal.

2CO-5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of [this]

tabernacle were

dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with

hands, eternal in

the heavens.

2CO-5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed

upon with our

house which is from heaven:

2CO-5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

2CO-5:4 For we that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being

burdened: not

for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality

might be

swallowed up of life.

2CO-5:5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing [is]

God, who also

hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

2CO-5:6 Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that,

whilst we are at

home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

2CO-5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

2CO-5:8 We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be

absent from the

body, and to be present with the Lord.

2CO-5:9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent,

we may be

accepted of him.

2CO-5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of

Christ; that

every one may receive the things [done] in [his] body, according

to that he

hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.

2CO-5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade

men; but we

are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest

in your

consciences.

2CO-5:12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give

you occasion

to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to [answer]

them which glory

in appearance, and not in heart.

2CO-5:13 For whether we be beside ourselves, [it is] to God: or

whether we be

sober, [it is] for your cause.

2CO-5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we

thus judge, that

if one died for all, then were all dead:

2CO-5:15 And [that] he died for all, that they which live

should not

henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for

them, and rose

again.

2CO-5:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh:

yea, though we

have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we

[him] no more.

2CO-5:17 Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new

creature: old

things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

2CO-5:18 And all things [are] of God, who hath reconciled us to

himself by

Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of

reconciliation;

2CO-5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world

unto himself,

not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto

us the word

of reconciliation.

2CO-5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God

did beseech

[you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled

to God.

2CO-5:21 For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no

sin; that we

might be made the righteousness of God in him.

2CO-6:1 We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech

[you] also that ye

receive not the grace of God in vain.

2CO-6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted,

and in the day

of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now [is] the

accepted time;

behold, now [is] the day of salvation.)

2CO-6:3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be

not blamed:

2CO-6:4 But in all [things] approving ourselves as the

ministers of God, in

much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

2CO-6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours,

in watchings,

in fastings;

2CO-6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by

kindness, by the Holy

Ghost, by love unfeigned,

2CO-6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the

armour of

righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

2CO-6:8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report:

deceivers, and [yet] true;

2CO-6:9 As unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and, behold,

we live; as

chastened, and not killed;

2CO-6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making

many rich; as

having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.

2CO-6:11 O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our

heart is

enlarged.

2CO-6:12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in

your own

bowels.

2CO-6:13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto

[my] children,)

be ye also enlarged.

2CO-6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:

for what

fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what

communion hath

light with darkness?

2CO-6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part

hath he that

believeth with an infidel?

2CO-6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?

for ye are the

temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them,

and walk in

[them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

2CO-6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate,

saith the

Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,

2CO-6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons

and

daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

2CO-7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us

cleanse

ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,

perfecting holiness in

the fear of God.

2CO-7:2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted

no man, we have

defrauded no man.

2CO-7:3 I speak not [this] to condemn [you]: for I have said

before, that ye

are in our hearts to die and live with [you].

2CO-7:4 Great [is] my boldness of speech toward you, great [is]

my glorying

of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all

our

tribulation.

2CO-7:5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no

rest, but we

were troubled on every side; without [were] fightings, within

[were] fears.

2CO-7:6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast

down, comforted

us by the coming of Titus;

2CO-7:7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation

wherewith he was

comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your

mourning, your

fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

2CO-7:8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not

repent, though I

did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you

sorry, though

[it were] but for a season.

2CO-7:9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye

sorrowed to

repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye

might receive

damage by us in nothing.

2CO-7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not

to be repented

of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

2CO-7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after

a godly sort,

what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of

yourselves, yea,

[what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement

desire, yea, [what]

zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have approved

yourselves to be

clear in this matter.

2CO-7:12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, [I did it] not for

his cause

that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong,

but that our

care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

2CO-7:13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and

exceedingly

the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was

refreshed by

you all.

2CO-7:14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am

not ashamed; but

as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting,

which [I made]

before Titus, is found a truth.

2CO-7:15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you,

whilst he

remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and

trembling ye received

him.

2CO-7:16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in

all [things].

2CO-8:1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of

God bestowed on

the churches of Macedonia;

2CO-8:2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance

of their joy

and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their

liberality.

2CO-8:3 For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond

[their] power

[they were] willing of themselves;

2CO-8:4 Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the

gift, and

[take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

2CO-8:5 And [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave

their own selves

to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

2CO-8:6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun,

so he would

also finish in you the same grace also.

2CO-8:7 Therefore, as ye abound in every [thing, in] faith, and

utterance,

and knowledge, and [in] all diligence, and [in] your love to us,

[see] that ye

abound in this grace also.

2CO-8:8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the

forwardness of

others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

2CO-8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,

though he was

rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his

poverty might be

rich.

2CO-8:10 And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient

for you, who

have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year

ago.

2CO-8:11 Now therefore perform the doing [of it]; that as

[there was] a

readiness to will, so [there may be] a performance also out of

that which ye

have.

2CO-8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, [it is] accepted

according to

that a man hath, [and] not according to that he hath not.

2CO-8:13 For [I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye

burdened:

2CO-8:14 But by an equality, [that] now at this time your

abundance [may be a

supply] for their want, that their abundance also may be [a

supply] for your

want: that there may be equality:

2CO-8:15 As it is written, He that [had gathered] much had

nothing over; and

he that [had gathered] little had no lack.

2CO-8:16 But thanks [be] to God, which put the same earnest

care into the

heart of Titus for you.

2CO-8:17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more

forward, of

his own accord he went unto you.

2CO-8:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise

[is] in the

gospel throughout all the churches;

2CO-8:19 And not [that] only, but who was also chosen of the

churches to

travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to

the glory of

the same Lord, and [declaration of] your ready mind:

2CO-8:20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this

abundance which

is administered by us:

2CO-8:21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of

the Lord, but

also in the sight of men.

2CO-8:22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have

oftentimes

proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon

the great

confidence which [I have] in you.

2CO-8:23 Whether [any do enquire] of Titus, [he is] my partner

and

fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren [be enquired of,

they are] the

messengers of the churches, [and] the glory of Christ.

2CO-8:24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches,

the proof of

your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

2CO-9:1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is

superfluous for

me to write to you:

2CO-9:2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I

boast of you to

them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your

zeal hath

provoked very many.

2CO-9:3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you

should be in

vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:

2CO-9:4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find

you

unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this

same confident

boasting.

2CO-9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren,

that they

would go before unto you, and make up before hand your bounty,

whereof ye had

notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of]

bounty, and not

as [of] covetousness.

2CO-9:6 But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap

also

sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also

bountifully.

2CO-9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so

let him give];

not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

2CO-9:8 And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you;

that ye,

always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to

every good work:

2CO-9:9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath

given to the

poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

2CO-9:10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both

minister bread for

[your] food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the

fruits of your

righteousness;)

2CO-9:11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness,

which causeth

through us thanksgiving to God.

2CO-9:12 For the administration of this service not only

supplieth the want

of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto

God;

2CO-9:13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they

glorify God for

your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for

[your] liberal

distribution unto them, and unto all [men];

2CO-9:14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for

the exceeding

grace of God in you.

2CO-9:15 Thanks [be] unto God for his unspeakable gift.

2CO-10:1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and

gentleness of

Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am

bold toward

you:

2CO-10:2 But I beseech [you], that I may not be bold when I am

present with

that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some,

which think of us

as if we walked according to the flesh.

2CO-10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after

the flesh:

2CO-10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but

mighty through

God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

2CO-10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that

exalteth itself

against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every

thought to the

obedience of Christ;

2CO-10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience,

when your

obedience is fulfilled.

2CO-10:7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If

any man trust

to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this

again, that, as

he [is] Christ's, even so [are] we Christ's.

2CO-10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our

authority, which the

Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction,

I should not

be ashamed:

2CO-10:9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by

letters.

2CO-10:10 For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and

powerful; but [his]

bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible.

2CO-10:11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in

word by letters

when we are absent, such [will we be] also in deed when we are

present.

2CO-10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or

compare ourselves

with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves

themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not

wise.

2CO-10:13 But we will not boast of things without [our] measure,

but

according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed

to us, a

measure to reach even unto you.

2CO-10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond [our measure], as

though we

reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in

[preaching] the

gospel of Christ:

2CO-10:15 Not boasting of things without [our] measure, [that

is], of other

men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased,

that we shall be

enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

2CO-10:16 To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you,

[and] not to

boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

2CO-10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

2CO-10:18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but

whom the Lord

commendeth.

2CO-11:1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in [my]

folly: and

indeed bear with me.

2CO-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.

2CO-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.

2CO-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].

2CO-11:5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very

chiefest apostles.

2CO-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.

2CO-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?

2CO-11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to do

you service.

2CO-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].

2CO-11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me

of this

boasting in the regions of Achaia.

2CO-11:11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

2CO-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.

2CO-11:13 For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers,

transforming

themselves into the apostles of Christ.

2CO-11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into

an angel of

light.

2CO-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.

2CO-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.

2CO-11:17 That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord,

but as it were

foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

2CO-11:18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory

also.

2CO-11:19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye [yourselves]

are wise.

2CO-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.

2CO-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.

2CO-11:22 Are they Hebrews? so [am] I. Are they Israelites? so

[am] I. Are

they the seed of Abraham? so [am] I.

2CO-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.

2CO-11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes]

save one.

2CO-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;

2CO-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;

2CO-11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in

hunger and

thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

2CO-11:28 Beside those things that are without, that which

cometh upon me

daily, the care of all the churches.

2CO-11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and

I burn not?

2CO-11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things

which concern

mine infirmities.

2CO-11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is

blessed for

evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

2CO-11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept

the city of the

Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

2CO-11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by

the wall, and

escaped his hands.

2CO-12:1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will

come to

visions and revelations of the Lord.

2CO-12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago,

(whether in the

body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell:

God knoweth;)

such an one caught up to the third heaven.

2CO-12:3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of

the body, I

cannot tell: God knoeweth;)

2CO-12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard

unspeakable

words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

2CO-12:5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not

glory, but in

mine infirmities.

2CO-12:6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a

fool; for I

will say the truth: but [now] I forbear, lest any man should

think of me above

that which he seeth me [to be], or [that] he heareth of me.

2CO-12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the

abundance of

the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the

messenger of

Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

2CO-12:8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it

might depart from

me.

2CO-12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee:

for my

strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will

I rather

glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon

me.

2CO-12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in

reproaches, in

necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake:

for when I am

weak, then am I strong.

2CO-12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me:

for I ought

to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the

very chiefest

apostles, though I be nothing.

2CO-12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you

in all

patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

2CO-12:13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other

churches, except

[it be] that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this

wrong.

2CO-12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and

I will not be

burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the

children ought not

to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

2CO-12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you;

though the more

abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

2CO-12:16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless,

being crafty, I

caught you with guile.

2CO-12:17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent

unto you?

2CO-12:18 I desired Titus, and with [him] I sent a brother. Did

Titus make a

gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not

in the same

steps?

2CO-12:19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we

speak before

God in Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your

edifying.

2CO-12:20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you

such as I

would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not:

lest [there

be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings,

swellings,

tumults:

2CO-12:21 [And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me

among you, and

[that] I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have

not repented of

the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they

have committed.

2CO-13:1 This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. In the

mouth of two

or three witnesses shall every word be established.

2CO-13:2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were

present, the

second time; and being absent now I write to them which

heretofore have

sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not

spare:

2CO-13:3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which

to you-ward is

not weak, but is mighty in you.

2CO-13:4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he

liveth by the

power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live

with him by the

power of God toward you.

2CO-13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove

your own

selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in

you, except

ye be reprobates?

2CO-13:6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not

reprobates.

2CO-13:7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we

should appear

approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we

be as

reprobates.

2CO-13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the

truth.

2CO-13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong:

and this also

we wish, [even] your perfection.

2CO-13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest

being present I

should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath

given me to

edification, and not to destruction.

2CO-13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good

comfort, be of

one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be

with you.

2CO-13:12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.

2CO-13:13 All the saints salute you.

2CO-13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of

God, and the

communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen.