Thematic Bible




2 Corinthians 11:1 (show verse)

I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!
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2 Corinthians 11:2 (show verse)

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:3 (show verse)

But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:4 (show verse)

For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough!

2 Corinthians 11:5 (show verse)

For I consider myself not at all inferior to those "super-apostles."

2 Corinthians 11:6 (show verse)

And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

2 Corinthians 11:7 (show verse)

Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge?

2 Corinthians 11:8 (show verse)

I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so that I could serve you!

2 Corinthians 11:9 (show verse)

When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

2 Corinthians 11:10 (show verse)

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

2 Corinthians 11:11 (show verse)

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

2 Corinthians 11:12 (show verse)

And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.

2 Corinthians 11:13 (show verse)

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:14 (show verse)

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 11:15 (show verse)

Therefore it is not surprising his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions.

2 Corinthians 11:16 (show verse)

I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
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2 Corinthians 11:17 (show verse)

What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.
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2 Corinthians 11:18 (show verse)

Since many are boasting according to human standards, I too will boast.
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2 Corinthians 11:19 (show verse)

For since you are so wise, you put up with fools gladly.
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2 Corinthians 11:20 (show verse)

For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.
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2 Corinthians 11:21 (show verse)

(To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about (I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing.
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2 Corinthians 11:22 (show verse)

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

2 Corinthians 11:23 (show verse)

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

2 Corinthians 11:24 (show verse)

Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.

2 Corinthians 11:25 (show verse)

Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.

2 Corinthians 11:26 (show verse)

I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,

2 Corinthians 11:27 (show verse)

in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.

2 Corinthians 11:28 (show verse)

Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern for all the churches.

2 Corinthians 11:29 (show verse)

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?

2 Corinthians 11:30 (show verse)

If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show my weakness.

2 Corinthians 11:31 (show verse)

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.

2 Corinthians 11:32 (show verse)

In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to arrest me,

2 Corinthians 11:33 (show verse)

but I was let down in a rope-basket through a window in the city wall, and escaped his hands.