2 Corinthians 11 - Compare Translations
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2 Corinthians 11:1
KJVWould to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
WEBI wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
YLTO that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:
2 Corinthians 11:2
KJVFor 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.
WEBFor I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
YLTfor I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,
2 Corinthians 11:3
KJVBut 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.
WEBBut I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
YLTand I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that [is] in the Christ;
2 Corinthians 11:4
KJVFor 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.
WEBFor if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
YLTfor if, indeed, he who is coming doth preach another Jesus whom we did not preach, or another Spirit ye receive which ye did not receive, or other good news which ye did not accept -- well were ye bearing [it],
2 Corinthians 11:5
KJVFor I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
WEBFor I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
YLTfor I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,
2 Corinthians 11:6
KJVBut though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
WEBBut though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
YLTand even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.
2 Corinthians 11:7
KJVHave I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
WEBOr did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
YLTThe sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?
2 Corinthians 11:8
KJVI robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
WEBI robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
YLTother assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration;
2 Corinthians 11:9
KJVAnd 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.
WEBWhen I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
YLTand being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.
2 Corinthians 11:10
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2 Corinthians 11:11
KJVWherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
WEBWhy? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
YLTwherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!
2 Corinthians 11:12
KJVBut 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.
WEBBut what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
YLTand what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;
2 Corinthians 11:13
KJVFor such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
WEBFor such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
YLTfor those such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,
2 Corinthians 11:14
KJVAnd no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
WEBAnd no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
YLTand no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;
2 Corinthians 11:15
KJVTherefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
WEBIt is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
YLTno great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.
2 Corinthians 11:16
KJVI say again, let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
WEBI say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
YLTAgain I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.
2 Corinthians 11:17
KJVThat which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
WEBThat which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
YLTThat which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;
2 Corinthians 11:18
KJVSeeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
WEBSeeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
YLTsince many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:
2 Corinthians 11:19
KJVFor ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
WEBFor you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
YLTfor gladly do ye bear with the fools -- being wise,
2 Corinthians 11:20
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2 Corinthians 11:21
KJVI speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
WEBI speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
YLTin reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say [it] -- I also am bold.
2 Corinthians 11:22
KJVAre they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
WEBAre they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
YLTHebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!
2 Corinthians 11:23
KJVAre 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.
WEBAre they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
YLTministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;
2 Corinthians 11:24
KJVOf the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
WEBFive times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.
YLTfrom Jews five times forty [stripes] save one I did receive;
2 Corinthians 11:25
KJVThrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
WEBThree times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
YLTthrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;
2 Corinthians 11:26
KJVIn 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;
WEBI have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
YLTjourneyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;
2 Corinthians 11:27
KJVIn weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
WEBin labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
YLTin laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;
2 Corinthians 11:28
KJVBeside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
WEBBesides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
YLTapart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.
2 Corinthians 11:29
KJVWho is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
WEBWho is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
YLTWho is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;
2 Corinthians 11:30
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2 Corinthians 11:31
KJVThe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
WEBThe God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
YLTthe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ -- who is blessed to the ages -- hath known that I do not lie! --
2 Corinthians 11:32
KJVIn Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
WEBIn Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
YLTIn Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,
2 Corinthians 11:33
KJVAnd through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
WEBThrough a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
YLTand through a window in a rope basket I was let down, through the wall, and fled out of his hands.
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