2 Corinthians 11:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

I say again, let no one think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast a little.

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  • 2 Cor 11:1 : 1 I wish you would bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 For though I would desire to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But now I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above that which he sees me to be, or that he hears of me.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For you gladly bear with fools, seeing that you yourselves are wise.
  • 2 Cor 11:21-23 : 21 I speak concerning reproach, as though we were weak. But in whatever anyone is bold—I speak foolishly—I am bold also. 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I. 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.

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  • 2 Cor 11:17-23
    7 verses
    89%

    17That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as if foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

    18Since many boast according to the flesh, I will also boast.

    19For you gladly bear with fools, seeing that you yourselves are wise.

    20For you bear it if someone brings you into bondage, if someone devours you, if someone takes from you, if someone exalts himself, if someone strikes you on the face.

    21I speak concerning reproach, as though we were weak. But in whatever anyone is bold—I speak foolishly—I am bold also.

    22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

    23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    5Of such a one will I boast, yet of myself I will not boast, but in my weaknesses.

    6For though I would desire to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But now I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above that which he sees me to be, or that he hears of me.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
    81%

    11I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
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    78%

    18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

    19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
    77%

    1I wish you would bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.

    6Even though I am unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly revealed among you in all things.

    7Did I commit a sin by humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God freely?

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30If I must boast, I will boast in the things concerning my weakness.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-9
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    7Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If anyone trusts that he is Christ's, let him think this again in himself, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

    8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

    9That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2But I plead with you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence by which I think to be bold against some who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that none of you be puffed up for one against another.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
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    73%

    3Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain regarding this matter; that, as I said, you may be ready:

    4Lest if those of Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to say you) should be ashamed of this same confident boasting.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
    73%

    12For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you an opportunity to boast on our behalf, so that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, I will continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.

  • 2 Cor 11:15
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    15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
    73%

    1It is not profitable for me, doubtless, to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 10:16-17
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    16To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

    17But he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

  • Gal 6:3
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    3For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

  • Rom 15:17
    72%

    17Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in what pertains to God.

  • 2 Cor 10:11-12
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    72%

    11Let such a person consider this, that as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

    12For we dare not count ourselves among or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves; but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

  • 2 Cor 12:16
    72%

    16But be it so, I did not burden you; nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

  • Prov 26:5
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    5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • 1 Cor 11:1
    71%

    1Be imitators of me, just as I am of Christ.

  • Gal 4:12
    71%

    12Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you: you have not injured me at all.

  • 1 Cor 4:3
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    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment; indeed, I do not even judge myself.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
    71%

    14For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found to be true.

  • Phil 3:4
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    4Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more:

  • 1 Cor 1:25
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    25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

    11But I make known to you, brothers, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13For in what way were you inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you: for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.