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# 2 Corinthians 11

2 Corinthians 11 is chapter 11 of 13 in the Second Letter to the Corinthians. Here are all 33 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He is forced to commend himself and his labours, lest the Corinthians should be imposed upon by the false apostles.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 2 Corinthians 11 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. I wish that you would endure a small amount of my foolishness, so as to bear with me.
2. For I am jealous toward you, with the jealousy of God. And I have espoused you to one husband, offering you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3. But I am afraid lest, as the serpent led astray Eve by his cleverness, so your minds might be corrupted and might fall away from the simplicity which is in Christ.
4. For if anyone arrives preaching another Christ, one whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, one whom you have not received; or another Gospel, one which you have not been given: you might permit him to guide you.
5. For I consider that I have done nothing less than the great Apostles.
6. For although I may be unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But, in all things, we have been made manifest to you.
7. Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you would be exalted? For I preached the Gospel of God to you freely.
8. I have taken from other churches, receiving a stipend from them to the benefit of your ministry.
9. And when I was with you and in need, I was burdensome to no one. For the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied whatever was lacking to me. And in all things, I have kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.
10. The truth of Christ is in me, and so this glorying shall not be broken away from me in the regions of Achaia.
11. Why so? Is it because I do not love you? God knows I do.
12. But what I am doing, I will continue to do, so that I may take away an opportunity from those who desire an opportunity by which they may glory, so as to be considered to be like us.
13. For false apostles, such as these deceitful workers, are presenting themselves as if they were Apostles of Christ.
14. And no wonder, for even Satan presents himself as if he were an Angel of light.
15. Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers present themselves as if they were ministers of justice, for their end shall be according to their works.
16. I say again. And let no one consider me to be foolish. Or, at least, accept me as if I were foolish, so that I also may glory a small amount.
17. What I am saying is not said according to God, but as if in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.
18. Since so many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.
19. For you freely accept the foolish, though you yourselves claim to be wise.
20. For you permit it when someone guides you into servitude, even if he devours you, even if he takes from you, even if he is extolled, even if he strikes you repeatedly on the face.
21. I speak according to disgrace, as if we had been weak in this regard. In this matter, (I speak in foolishness) if anyone dares, I dare also.
22. They are Hebrews; so am I. They are Israelites; so am I. They are the offspring of Abraham; so am I.
23. They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as if I were less wise); more so am I: with many more labors, with numerous imprisonments, with wounds beyond measure, with frequent mortifications.
24. On five occasions, I received forty stripes, less one, from the Jews.
25. Three times, I was beaten with rods. One time, I was stoned. Three times, I was shipwrecked. For a night and a day, I was in the depths of the sea.
26. I have made frequent journeys, through dangerous waters, in danger of robbers, in danger from my own nation, in danger from the Gentiles, in danger in the city, in danger in the wilderness, in danger in the sea, in danger from false brothers,
27. with hardships and difficulties, with much vigilance, in hunger and thirst, with frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness,
28. and, in addition to these things, which are external: there is my daily earnestness and solicitude for all the churches.
29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not being burned?
30. If it is necessary to glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weaknesses.
31. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
32. At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, watched over the city of the Damascenes, so as to apprehend me.
33. And, through a window, I was let down along the wall in a basket; and so I escaped his hands.

## 2 Corinthians 11 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Utinam sustineretis modicum quid insipientiæ meæ, sed et supportare me:
2. æmulor enim vos Dei æmulatione. Despondi enim vos uni viro, virginem castam exhibere Christo.
3. Timeo autem ne sicut serpens Hevam seduxit astutia sua, ita corrumpantur sensus vestri, et excidant a simplicitate, quæ est in Christo.
4. Nam si is qui venit, alium Christum prædicat, quem non prædicavimus, aut alium spiritum accipitis, quem non accepistis: aut aliud Evangelium, quod non recepistis: recte pateremini.
5. Existimo enim nihil me minus fecisse a magnis Apostolis.
6. Nam etsi imperitus sermone, sed non scientia, in omnibus autem manifestati sumus vobis.
7. Aut numquid peccatum feci, meipsum humilians, ut vos exaltemini? quoniam gratis Evangelium Dei evangelizavi vobis?
8. Alias ecclesias expoliavi, accipiens stipendium ad ministerium vestrum.
9. Et cum essem apud vos, et egerem, nulli onerosus fui: nam quod mihi deerat, suppleverunt fratres, qui venerunt a Macedonia: et in omnibus sine onere me vobis servavi, et servabo.
10. Est veritas Christi in me, quoniam hæc gloriatio non infringetur in me in regionibus Achaiæ.
11. Quare? quia non diligo vos? Deus scit.
12. Quod autem facio, et faciam: ut amputem occasionem eorum qui volunt occasionem, ut in quo gloriantur, inveniantur sicut et nos.
13. Nam ejusmodi pseudoapostoli sunt operarii subdoli, transfigurantes se in apostolos Christi.
14. Et non mirum: ipse enim Satanas transfigurat se in angelum lucis.
15. Non est ergo magnum, si ministri ejus transfigurentur velut ministri justitiæ: quorum finis erit secundum opera ipsorum.
16. Iterum dico (ne quis me putet insipientem esse, alioquin velut insipientem accipite me, ut et ego modicum quid glorier),
17. quod loquor, non loquor secundum Deum, sed quasi in insipientia, in hac substantia gloriæ.
18. Quoniam multi gloriantur secundum carnem: et ego gloriabor.
19. Libenter enim suffertis insipientes, cum sitis ipsi sapientes.
20. Sustinetis enim si quis vos in servitutem redigit, si quis devorat, si quis accipit, si quis extollitur, si quis in faciem vos cædit.
21. Secundum ignobilitatem dico, quasi nos infirmi fuerimus in hac parte. In quo quis audet (in insipientia dico) audeo et ego:
22. Hebræi sunt, et ego: Israëlitæ sunt, et ego: semen Abrahæ sunt, et ego.
23. Ministri Christi sunt (ut minus sapiens dico), plus ego: in laboribus plurimis, in carceribus abundantius, in plagis supra modum, in mortibus frequenter.
24. A Judæis quinquies, quadragenas, una minus, accepi.
25. Ter virgis cæsus sum, semel lapidatus sum: ter naufragium feci, nocte et die in profundo maris fui,
26. in itineribus sæpe, periculis fluminum, periculis latronum, periculis ex genere, periculis ex gentibus, periculis in civitate, periculis in solitudine, periculis in mari, periculis in falsis fratribus:
27. in labore et ærumna, in vigiliis multis, in fame et siti, in jejuniis multis, in frigore et nuditate,
28. præter illa quæ extrinsecus sunt, instantia mea quotidiana, sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum.
29. Quis infirmatur, et ego non infirmor? quis scandalizatur, et ego non uror?
30. Si gloriari oportet, quæ infirmitatis meæ sunt, gloriabor.
31. Deus et Pater Domini nostri Jesu Christi, qui est benedictus in sæcula, scit quod non mentior.
32. Damasci præpositus gentis Aretæ regis custodiebat civitatem Damascenorum ut me comprehenderet:
33. et per fenestram in sporta dimissus sum per murum, et sic effugi manus ejus.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 796: The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 505: "Conceived By the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 613: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1341: The Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: So he calls his reciting his own praises, which, commonly speaking is looked upon as a piece of folly and vanity; though the apostle was constrained to do it, for the good of the souls committed to his charge.
- Verse 28: The labours that come in, and press upon me every day.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Jun 17, 2027 (computed): Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 2 Corinthians 11:1-11
- Fri, Jun 18, 2027 (computed): Friday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 2 Corinthians 11:18, 21-30

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).