II CORINTHIANS

Chapter 11

Paul's Credentials Defend His Apostleship

Paul, False Apostles, and "Foolish Boasting"

• 1. WOULD to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
  
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    • Ὄφελον ἀνείχεσθέ μου μικρόν τῇ ἀφροσύνη ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀνέχεσθέ μου
• 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 in Christ.
  
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    • ζηλῶ γὰρ ὑμᾶς θεοῦ ζήλῳ ἡρμοσάμην γὰρ ὑμᾶς ἑνὶ ἀνδρὶ παρθένον ἁγνὴν παραστῆσαι τῷ Χριστῷ·
• 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 is in Christ.
  
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    • φοβοῦμαι δὲ μήπως ὡς ὁ ὄφις Εὕαν ἐξηπάτησεν ἐν τῇ πανουργίᾳ αὐτοῦ οὕτως φθαρῇ τὰ νοήματα ὑμῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ἁπλότητος τῆς εἰς τὸν Χριστόν
• 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.
  
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    • εἰ μὲν γὰρ ὁ ἐρχόμενος ἄλλον Ἰησοῦν κηρύσσει ὃν οὐκ ἐκηρύξαμεν ἢ πνεῦμα ἕτερον λαμβάνετε ὃ οὐκ ἐλάβετε ἢ εὐαγγέλιον ἕτερον ὃ οὐκ ἐδέξασθε καλῶς ἠνείχεσθε
• 5. For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
  
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    • λογίζομαι γὰρ μηδὲν ὑστερηκέναι τῶν ὑπερ λίαν ἀποστόλων·
• 6. But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
  
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    • εἰ δὲ καὶ ἰδιώτης τῷ λόγῳ ἀλλ᾽ οὐ τῇ γνώσει ἀλλ᾽ ἐν παντὶ φανερωθέντες ἐν πᾶσιν εἰς ὑμᾶς
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• 14. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
  
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    • καὶ οὐ θαυμαστόν· αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁ Σατανᾶς μετασχηματίζεται εἰς ἄγγελον φωτός
• 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.
  
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    • οὐ μέγα οὖν εἰ καὶ οἱ διάκονοι αὐτοῦ μετασχηματίζονται ὡς διάκονοι δικαιοσύνης· ὧν τὸ τέλος ἔσται κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν

Paul's Apostolic Service and Suffering

• 16. I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receives me, that I may boast myself a litte.
  
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    • Πάλιν λέγω μή τίς με δόξῃ ἄφρονα εἶναι· εἰ δὲ μήγε κἂν ὡς ἄφρονα δέξασθέ με ἵνα μικρόν τι κἀγὼ καυχήσωμαι
• 17. That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
  
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    • ὃ λαλῶ οὐ λαλῶ κατὰ κύριον ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ὑποστάσει τῆς καυχήσεως
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