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    "chapter": 11
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    "n": 11,
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "2CO-11:1",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.1",
        "text": "Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "2CO-11:2",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.2",
        "text": "For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you [as] a pure virgin to Christ."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "2CO-11:3",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.3",
        "text": "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "2CO-11:4",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.4",
        "text": "For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or [if] ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with [him]."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "2CO-11:5",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.5",
        "text": "For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "2CO-11:6",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.6",
        "text": "But though [I be] rude in speech, yet [am I] not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made [this] manifest unto you in all things."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "2CO-11:7",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.7",
        "text": "Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "2CO-11:8",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.8",
        "text": "I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "2CO-11:9",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.9",
        "text": "and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself]."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "2CO-11:10",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.10",
        "text": "As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "2CO-11:11",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.11",
        "text": "Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "2CO-11:12",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.12",
        "text": "But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "2CO-11:13",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.13",
        "text": "For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "2CO-11:14",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.14",
        "text": "And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "2CO-11:15",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.15",
        "text": "It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "2CO-11:16",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.16",
        "text": "I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "2CO-11:17",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.17",
        "text": "That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "2CO-11:18",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.18",
        "text": "Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "2CO-11:19",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.19",
        "text": "For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise [yourselves]."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "2CO-11:20",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.20",
        "text": "For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you [captive], if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "2CO-11:21",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.21",
        "text": "I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "2CO-11:22",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.22",
        "text": "Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "2CO-11:23",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.23",
        "text": "Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "2CO-11:24",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.24",
        "text": "Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "2CO-11:25",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.25",
        "text": "Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep;"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "2CO-11:26",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.26",
        "text": "[in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren;"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "2CO-11:27",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.27",
        "text": "[in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "2CO-11:28",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.28",
        "text": "Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "2CO-11:29",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.29",
        "text": "Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?"
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "2CO-11:30",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.30",
        "text": "If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "2CO-11:31",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.31",
        "text": "The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "2CO-11:32",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.32",
        "text": "In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me:"
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "2CO-11:33",
        "verseRef": "2CO.11.33",
        "text": "and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands."
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