Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.
New American Standard Bible
I wish that you would
King James Version
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
Holman Bible
I wish you would put up with a little foolishness
International Standard Version
I wish you would tolerate a little of my foolishness. Yes, please tolerate me!
A Conservative Version
O that ye tolerated a little of my foolishness, but tolerate me too.
American Standard Version
Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.
Amplified
I wish you would bear with me [while I indulge] in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me [as you read this].
An Understandable Version
I wish that you could put up with a little "foolishness" from me, but you really are doing that already.
Anderson New Testament
I wish you could bear with me a little in my folly; but yet bear with me:
Common New Testament
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Would you could bear with me a little in my vanity, but indeed you do bear with me.
Darby Translation
Would that ye would bear with me in a little folly; but indeed bear with me.
Godbey New Testament
I would that you bear with me a little in my folly: yes indeed you do bear with me.
Goodspeed New Testament
I wish you would put up with a little folly from me. Do put up with it!
John Wesley New Testament
I wish ye would bear a little with my folly; yea, bear with me.
Julia Smith Translation
I would ye hold me up a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
King James 2000
I wish that you could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I wish that you would put up with me {in something a little foolish}--but indeed you are putting up with me.
Modern King James verseion
I would that you were bearing with me a little in foolishness; but indeed bear with me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Would to God, ye could suffer me a little in my foolishness: yea, and I pray you forbear me.
Moffatt New Testament
I wish you would put up with a little 'folly' from me. Do put up with me,
Montgomery New Testament
Would that you could put up with a little "folly" from me! Nay, do bear with me.
NET Bible
I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!
New Heart English Bible
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
Noyes New Testament
Would that ye could bear with me in a little folly! and indeed ye do bear with me.
Sawyer New Testament
I wish you would bear a little with my folly; and indeed do bear with me.
The Emphasized Bible
I could wish ye would bear with me as to some little foolishness, - Nay! do even bear with me!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
I WISH ye would bear with me a little in my foolishness, yea indeed bear with me.
Twentieth Century New Testament
I could wish that you would tolerate a little folly in me! But indeed you do tolerate me.
Webster
I earnestly wish ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
Weymouth New Testament
I wish you could have borne with a little foolish boasting on my part. Nay, do bear with me.
Williams New Testament
I wish you would now listen to a little folly of mine. Please do listen to me!
World English Bible
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
Worrell New Testament
Would that ye could bear with me in some little foolishness! Yea, indeed, ye do bear with me.
Worsley New Testament
I wish ye would bear with me a little in my folly; and indeed bear with me.
Youngs Literal Translation
O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 11:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Defends His Apostleship
1 Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me. 2 For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 5:13
For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.
2 Corinthians 11:4
For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.
2 Corinthians 11:19
For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.
2 Corinthians 11:16-17
I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.
2 Corinthians 11:21
I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.
Numbers 11:29
And Moses said to him, Are you moved by envy on my account? If only all the Lord's people were prophets, and the Lord might put his spirit on them!
Joshua 7:7
And Joshua said, O Lord God, why have you taken us over Jordan only to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction? If only it had been enough for us to keep on the other side of Jordan!
2 Kings 5:3
And she said to her master's wife, If only my lord would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would make him well.
Matthew 17:17
And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.
Acts 18:14
But when Paul was about to say something, Gallio said to the Jews, If this was anything to do with wrongdoing or crime, there would be a reason for me to give you a hearing:
Acts 26:29
And Paul said, It is my prayer to God that, in little or great measure, not only you, but all those hearing me today might be even as I am, but for these chains.
1 Corinthians 1:21
For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 4:8
For even now you are full, even now you have wealth, you have been made kings without us: truly, I would be glad if you were kings, so that we might be kings with you.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.
Hebrews 5:2
He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;