Thematic Bible
2 Corinthians 11:1 (show verse)
I wish you would put up with a little folly from me. Do put up with it!
No Themes for this verse.
2 Corinthians 11:2 (show verse)
I feel a divine jealousy about you, for I betrothed you to Christ, to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.
2 Corinthians 11:3 (show verse)
But I am afraid that just as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts will be led astray from their single-hearted fidelity to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:4 (show verse)
For when somebody comes along and preaches another Jesus than the one I preached, or you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough!
2 Corinthians 11:5 (show verse)
For I think that I am not in the least inferior to these superfine apostles of yours.
2 Corinthians 11:6 (show verse)
Even if I have no particular gifts in speaking, I am not wanting in knowledge. Why, I have always made that perfectly clear in my dealings with you.
2 Corinthians 11:7 (show verse)
Do you think that I did wrong in degrading myself to uplift you, because I preached God's good news to you without any compensation?
2 Corinthians 11:8 (show verse)
I robbed other churches, letting them pay me so that I could work for you!
2 Corinthians 11:9 (show verse)
And when I was with you and wanted money, I did not burden any of you, for when the brothers came from Macedonia they supplied what I needed. So I kept myself, as I shall always do, from being a burden to you in any way.
2 Corinthians 11:10 (show verse)
By the truth of Christ that is in me, this boast of mine shall not be silenced anywhere in Greece.
2 Corinthians 11:11 (show verse)
And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do.
2 Corinthians 11:12 (show verse)
And I shall go on doing as I do, so as to cut the ground from under those who want to make out that in their boasted apostleship they work on the same terms that I do.
2 Corinthians 11:13 (show verse)
Such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:14 (show verse)
And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as a shining angel.
2 Corinthians 11:15 (show verse)
So it is nothing strange if his servants also masquerade as servants of uprightness. But their doom will fit their actions.
2 Corinthians 11:16 (show verse)
I repeat, no one should think me a fool, but if you do, show me at least the patience you would show a fool, and let me have my little boast like the others.
No Themes for this verse.
2 Corinthians 11:17 (show verse)
When I boast in this reckless way, I do not say what I am saying for the Lord, but as a fool would talk.
No Themes for this verse.
2 Corinthians 11:18 (show verse)
Since many are so human as to boast, I will do it also.
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2 Corinthians 11:19 (show verse)
For you like to put up with fools, you are so wise yourselves!
No Themes for this verse.
2 Corinthians 11:20 (show verse)
For you put up with it if a man makes you his slaves, or lives on you, or takes you in, or puts on airs, or gives you a slap in the face.
No Themes for this verse.
2 Corinthians 11:21 (show verse)
To my shame I must admit that I was too weak for that sort of thing. But whatever anyone else dares to boast of?? am playing the part of a fool?? will dare to boast of too.
No Themes for this verse.
2 Corinthians 11:22 (show verse)
If they are Hebrews, so am I! If they are Israelites, so am I! If they are descended from Abraham, so am I!
2 Corinthians 11:23 (show verse)
If they are Christian workers?? am talking like a madman!?? am a better one! with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, vastly worse beatings, and in frequent danger of death.
2 Corinthians 11:24 (show verse)
Five times I have been given one less than forty lashes, by the Jews.
2 Corinthians 11:25 (show verse)
I have been beaten three times by the Romans, I have been stoned once, I have been shipwrecked three times, a night and a day I have been adrift at sea;
2 Corinthians 11:26 (show verse)
with my frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from the heathen, danger in the city, danger in the desert, danger at sea, danger from false brothers,
2 Corinthians 11:27 (show verse)
through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, often without food, and exposed to cold.
2 Corinthians 11:28 (show verse)
And besides everything else, the thing that burdens me every day is my anxiety about all the churches.
2 Corinthians 11:29 (show verse)
Who is weak without my being weak? Whose conscience is hurt without my being fired with indignation?
2 Corinthians 11:30 (show verse)
If there must be boasting, I will boast of the things that show my weakness!
2 Corinthians 11:31 (show verse)
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is forever blessed, knows that I am telling the truth.
2 Corinthians 11:32 (show verse)
When I was at Damascus, the governor under King Aretas had the city gates watched in order to catch me,
2 Corinthians 11:33 (show verse)
but I was lowered in a basket from an opening in the wall, and got out of his clutches.