Thematic Bible
2 Corinthians 11:1 (show verse)
I hope you can put up with me in a little foolishness: but indeed you do put up with me.
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2 Corinthians 11:2 (show verse)
For I am zealous over you with a godly fervor (ardor) (zeal)! For I promised you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:3 (show verse)
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds will be lead away from the simplicity and the purity (cleanness) that is toward Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:4 (show verse)
If someone comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different good news, which you did not accept, you do well to put up with him.
2 Corinthians 11:5 (show verse)
For I do not consider myself inferior to the super apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:6 (show verse)
Though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. We have in every way made this evident to you in all things.
2 Corinthians 11:7 (show verse)
Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the good news of God without charge?
2 Corinthians 11:8 (show verse)
I robbed other congregations, taking pay from them that I might minister to you.
2 Corinthians 11:9 (show verse)
When I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man. For the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will continue to do the same.
2 Corinthians 11:10 (show verse)
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me from doing this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 11:11 (show verse)
Why? Is it because I do not love you? God knows I do!
2 Corinthians 11:12 (show verse)
But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that in whatever matter they boast, they may be found equal with me.
2 Corinthians 11:13 (show verse)
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:14 (show verse)
And no wonder for even Satan fashions himself into an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:15 (show verse)
It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
2 Corinthians 11:16 (show verse)
I say again, let no man think me foolish. If you do, yet receive me as foolish that I also may boast a little.
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2 Corinthians 11:17 (show verse)
That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
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2 Corinthians 11:18 (show verse)
Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I will boast also.
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2 Corinthians 11:19 (show verse)
You being wise tolerate the foolish.
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2 Corinthians 11:20 (show verse)
You suffer, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes advantage of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man strikes you on the face.
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2 Corinthians 11:21 (show verse)
I speak concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. If any are bold, I speak foolishly for I am also bold.
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2 Corinthians 11:22 (show verse)
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I!
2 Corinthians 11:23 (show verse)
Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.
2 Corinthians 11:24 (show verse)
Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one.
2 Corinthians 11:25 (show verse)
Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, I suffered shipwreck three times, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.
2 Corinthians 11:26 (show verse)
In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brothers;
2 Corinthians 11:27 (show verse)
In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 11:28 (show verse)
Beside those things that are from the outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the congregations.
2 Corinthians 11:29 (show verse)
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I do not burn with indignation?
2 Corinthians 11:30 (show verse)
If I need to boast, I will boast about the things that concern my infirmities.
2 Corinthians 11:31 (show verse)
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed forever knows I do not lie.
2 Corinthians 11:32 (show verse)
The governor under King Aretas put guards around the city of Damascus to catch me.
2 Corinthians 11:33 (show verse)
So I was let down in a basket through an opening in the wall and escaped from him.