First Reading2 Corinthians 11:1-11
From the Second Letter of Paul to the Corinthians
1I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness,but indeed you do bear with me.2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy.For I promised you in marriage to one husband,that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.3But 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.4For if he who comes preaches another Jesuswhom we didn’t preach,or if you receive a different spiritwhich you didn’t receive,or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept,you put up with that well enough.5For I reckonthat I am not at all behind the very best apostles.6But 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.
7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myselfthat you might be exalted,because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?8I robbed other assemblies,taking wages from them that I might serve you.9When 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.10As the truth of Christ is in me,no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.11Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.