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| 11:1 | Would to God you could beare with mee a little in my folly, & in deede beare with me. |
| 11:2 | For I am iealous ouer you with godly iealousie, for I haue espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. |
| 11:3 | But I feare lest by any meanes, as the Serpent beguiled Eue through his subtilty, so your mindes should bee corrupted from the simplicitie that is in Christ. |
| 11:4 | For if he that commeth preacheth another Iesus whome wee haue not preached, or if yee receiue another spirit, which ye haue not receiued, or another Gospel, which ye haue not accepted, yee might well beare with him. |
| 11:5 | For, I suppose, I was not a whit behinde the very chiefest Apostles. |
| 11:6 | But though I be rude in speach, yet not in knowledge; but we haue bene throughly made manifest among you in all things. |
| 11:7 | Haue I committed an offence in abasing my selfe, that you might be exalted, because I haue preached to you the Gospel of God freely? |
| 11:8 | I robbed other Churches, taking wages of them to doe you seruice. |
| 11:9 | And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: For that which was lacking to mee, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied, and in all things I haue kept my selfe from being burthensome to you, and so will I keepe my selfe. |
| 11:10 | As the trueth of Christ is in mee, no man shall stop mee of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. |
| 11:11 | Wherefore? because I loue you not? God knoweth. |
| 11:12 | But what I doe, that I wil doe, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion, that wherein they glory, they may bee found euen as we. |
| 11:13 | For such are false Apostles, deceitfull workers, transforming themselues into the Apostles of Christ. |
| 11:14 | And no marueile, for Sathan himselfe is transformed into an Angel of light. |
| 11:15 | Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also bee transformed as the ministers of righteousnesse, whose end shall be according to their workes. |
| 11:16 | I say againe, Let no man thinke mee a foole; if otherwise, yet as a foole receiue me, that I may boast my selfe a little. |
| 11:17 | That which I speake, I speake it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly in this confidence of boasting. |
| 11:18 | Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. |
| 11:19 | For ye suffer fooles gladly, seeing ye your selues are wise. |
| 11:20 | For ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man deuoure you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himselfe, if a man smite you on the face. |
| 11:21 | I speake as concerning reproch, as though we had bene weake: howbeit, wherein soeuer any is bold, I speake foolishly, I am bold also. |
| 11:22 | Are they Hebrewes? so am I: are they Israelites? so am I: are they the seed of Abraham? so am I: |
| 11:23 | Are they ministers of Christ? I speake as a foole, I am more: in labors more abundant: in stripes aboue measure: in prisons more frequent: in deaths oft. |
| 11:24 | Of the Iewes fiue times receiued I forty stripes saue one. |
| 11:25 | Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned: thrice I suffered shipwracke: a night and a day I haue bene in the deepe. |
| 11:26 | In iourneying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my owne countreymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the citie, in perils in the wildernesse, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren, |
| 11:27 | In wearinesse and painfulnesse, in watchings often, in hunger & thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakednes. |
| 11:28 | Besides those things that are without, that which commeth vpon me dayly, the care of all the Churches. |
| 11:29 | Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not? |
| 11:30 | If I must needes glory, I will glory of the things which concerne mine infirmities. |
| 11:31 | The God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, which is blessed for euermore, knoweth that I lie not. |
| 11:32 | In Damascus the gouernour vnder Aretas the King, kept the citie with a garison, desirous to apprehend mee. |
| 11:33 | And through a window in a basket was I let downe, by the wall, and escaped his hands. |
| 11:1 | Wolde God ye coulde suffre me a litle in my foloshnes, yet do ye forbeare me. |
| 11:2 | For I am gelous ouer you wt godly gelousy. For I haue maried you vnto one ma, to brynge a chaste virgin vnto Christ. |
| 11:3 | But I feare, lest as ye serpet begyled Eue wt his sutteltie, eue so yor wyttes shulde be corrupte from the synglenesse that is in Christ. |
| 11:4 | For yf he that commeth vnto you, preach another Iesus, whom we haue not preached, or yf ye receaue another sprete, yt ye haue not receaued, or another Gospell which ye haue not accepted, ye might right well haue bene cotent. |
| 11:5 | For I suppose that I am no lesse the the hye Apostles are. |
| 11:6 | And though I be rude in speakynge, yet am I not rude in knowlege. Howbeit amoge you I am knowne to the vttemost. |
| 11:7 | Or dyd I synne therin because I submytted my selfe, that ye mighte be exalted?For I preached vnto you the Gospell of God frely, |
| 11:8 | and robbed other cogregacions, and toke wages of the, to preach vnto you. |
| 11:9 | And whan I was present with you, and had nede, I was greuous to no man: for yt which was lackynge vnto me, the brethren which came fro Macedonia, suppleed. And in all thinges I kepte myselfe so, yt I shulde not be greuous to you, & so wyl I kepe my self |
| 11:10 | As surely as the trueth of Christ is in me, this reioysinge shal not be taken fro me in the regions of Achaia. |
| 11:11 | Wherfore? because I shulde not loue you? God knoweth. |
| 11:12 | Neuertheles what I do and wyl do, that do I to cut awaye occasion, from the which seke occasion, that they mighte boast the selues to be like vnto vs. |
| 11:13 | For soch false Apostles & disceatfull workers fashion them selues like vnto the Apostles of Christ. |
| 11:14 | And that is no maruell: for Sathan himfelfe is chaunged in to ye fashion of an angell of light. |
| 11:15 | Therfore is it no greate thinge, though his mymisters fashion them selues as though they were the preachers of righteousnes, whose ende shalbe acordinge to their dedes. |
| 11:16 | I saye agayne, lest eny man thynke that I am folish: or els take me euen now as a fole, yt I maye boast my selfe a litle also. |
| 11:17 | That I speake now, that speake I not after the LORDE, but as it were in folishnes, whyle we are now come to boastinge: |
| 11:18 | Seynge that many boaste them selues after ye flesh, I wil boast my selfe also. |
| 11:19 | For ye suffre foles gladly, in so moch as ye youre selues are wyse. |
| 11:20 | For ye suffre euen yf a man brynge you in to bondage, yf a man put you to dishonesty, yf a man take ought fro you, yf a man exalte himselfe ouer you, yf a man smyte you on the face. |
| 11:21 | I speake concernynge rebuke, as though we were weake.Wherin so euer now eny man darre be bolde (I speake folishly) therin darre I be bolde also. |
| 11:22 | They are Hebrues, so am I. They are Israelites, euen so am I. They are the sede of Abraham, so am I. |
| 11:23 | They are the mynisters of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am more: in laboures more abudaunt, in strypes aboue measure, in presonmentes more plenteously, in death oft. |
| 11:24 | Of the Iewes receaued I fyue tymes fortye strypes, one lesse. |
| 11:25 | Thryse was I beaten with roddes. I was once stoned, I suffred thryse shypwracke: nighte and daye haue I bene in the depe of the see: |
| 11:26 | I haue oft iourneyed: I haue bene oft in parels of waters, in parels amonge murthurers, in parels amonge the Iewes, in parels amonge the Heythen, in parels in cities, in parels in the wylderners, in parels vpon the See, in parels amonge false brethre, |
| 11:27 | in laboure & trauayle, in moch watchinges, in honger and thyrst, in moch fastinges in colde and nakednesse: |
| 11:28 | Besyde those thynges which are outwarde, namely my daylie combraunce, my daylie care for all cogregacions. |
| 11:29 | Who is weake, and I be not weake? Who is offended, & I burne not? |
| 11:30 | Yf I must nedes make my boast, I wil boast my selfe of myne infirmyte. |
| 11:31 | God ye father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, which is blessed for euer, knoweth that I lye not. |
| 11:32 | At Damascon the gouernoure of ye people vnder kynge Aretas, kepte ye cite of the Damascenes, & wolde haue taken me. |
| 11:33 | and at a wyndowe was I let downe in a basket thorow the wall, & so escaped his handes. |
| 11:1 | I wolde that ye wolden suffre a litil thing of myn vnwisdom, but also supporte ye me. |
| 11:2 | For Y loue you bi the loue of God; for Y haue spousid you to oon hosebonde, to yelde a chast virgyn to Crist. |
| 11:3 | But Y drede, lest as the serpent disseyuede Eue with his sutil fraude, so youre wittis ben corrupt, and fallen doun fro the symplenesse that is in Crist. |
| 11:4 | For if he that cometh, prechith anothir Crist, whom we precheden not, or if ye taken another spirit, whom ye token not, or another gospel, which ye resseyueden not, riytli ye schulden suffre. |
| 11:5 | For Y wene that Y haue don no thing lesse than the grete apostlis. |
| 11:6 | For thouy Y be vnlerud in word, but not in kunnyng. For in alle thingis Y am open to you. |
| 11:7 | Or whether Y haue don synne, mekynge my silf, that ye be enhaunsid, for freli Y prechide to you the gospel of God? |
| 11:8 | Y made nakid othere chirchis, and Y took sowde to youre seruyce. |
| 11:9 | And whanne Y was among you, and hadde nede, Y was chargeouse to no man; for britheren that camen fro Macedonye, fulfilliden that that failide to me. And in alle thingis Y haue kept, and schal kepe me with outen charge to you. |
| 11:10 | The treuthe of Crist is in me; for this glorie schal not be brokun in me in the cuntreis of Acaie. |
| 11:11 | Whi? for Y loue not you? |
| 11:12 | God woot. For that that Y do, and that Y schal do, is that Y kitte awei the occasioun of hem that wolen occasioun, that in the thing, in which thei glorien, thei be foundun as we. |
| 11:13 | For siche false apostlis ben trecherouse werk men, and transfiguren hem in to apostlis of Crist. |
| 11:14 | And no wondur, for Sathanas hym silf transfigurith hym in to an aungel of light. |
| 11:15 | Therfor it is not greet, if hise mynystris ben transfigurid as the mynystris of riytwisnesse, whos ende schal be aftir her werkis. |
| 11:16 | Eft Y seie, lest ony man gesse me to be vnwise; ellis take ye me as vnwise, that also Y haue glorie a litil what. |
| 11:17 | That that Y speke, Y speke not aftir God, but as in vnwisdom, in this substaunce of glorie. |
| 11:18 | For many men glorien aftir the fleisch, and Y schal glorie. |
| 11:19 | For ye suffren gladli vnwise men, whanne ye silf ben wise. |
| 11:20 | For ye susteynen, if ony man dryueth you in to seruage, if ony man deuourith, if ony man takith, if ony man is enhaunsid, if ony man smytith you on the face. |
| 11:21 | Bi vnnoblei Y seie, as if we weren sike in this parti. In what thing ony man dar, in vnwisdom Y seie, and Y dar. |
| 11:22 | Thei ben Ebrewis, and Y; thei ben Israelitis, and Y; thei ben the seed of Abraham, and Y; |
| 11:23 | thei ben the mynystris of Crist, and Y. As lesse wise Y seie, Y more; in ful many trauelis, in prisouns more plenteuousli, in woundis aboue maner, in deethis ofte tymes. |
| 11:24 | Y resseyuede of the Jewis fyue sithis fourti strokis oon lesse; |
| 11:25 | thries Y was betun with yerdis, onys Y was stonyd, thries Y was at shipbreche, a nyyt and a dai Y was in the depnesse of the see; |
| 11:26 | in weies ofte, in perelis of floodis, in perelis of theues, in perelis of kyn, in perelis of hethene men, in perelis in citee, in perelis in desert, in perelis in the see, in perelis among false britheren, in trauel and nedynesse, |
| 11:27 | in many wakyngis, in hungur, in thirst, in many fastyngis, in coold and nakidnesse. |
| 11:28 | Withouten tho thingis that ben withoutforth, myn ech daies trauelyng is the bisynesse of alle chirchis. |
| 11:29 | Who is sijk, and Y am not sijk? who is sclaundrid, and Y am not brent? |
| 11:30 | If it bihoueth to glorie, Y schal glorie in tho thingis that ben of myn infirmyte. |
| 11:31 | God and the fadir of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, that is blessid in to worldis, woot that Y lie not. |
| 11:32 | The preuost of Damask, of the kyng of the folk Arethe, kepte the citee of Damascenes to take me; |
| 11:33 | and bi a wyndow in a leep Y was latun doun bi the wal, and so Y ascapide hise hondis. |
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