2 Corinthians 11:16

American Standard Version (1901)

I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 11:1 : 1 Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or heareth from me.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise [yourselves] .
  • 2 Cor 11:21-23 : 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), 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 one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

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  • 2 Cor 11:17-23
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    17That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.

    18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

    19For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise [yourselves] .

    20For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you [captive], if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.

    21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), 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 one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in [my] weaknesses.

    6For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or heareth from me.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
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    18Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:1
    77%

    1Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

    6But though [I be] rude in speech, yet [am I] not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made [this] manifest unto you in all things.

    7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-9
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    7Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.

    8For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

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

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
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    3But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:

    4lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • 2 Cor 11:15
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    15It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
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    1I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 10:16-17
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    16so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

    17But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

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

  • Rom 15:17
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    17I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

  • 2 Cor 10:11-12
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    11Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [are we] also in deed when we are present.

    12For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

  • 2 Cor 12:16
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    16But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, 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 conceit.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

  • 1 Cor 11:1
    71%

    1Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

  • Gal 4:12
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    12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong:

  • 1 Cor 4:3
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    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

  • Phil 3:4
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    4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet 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 am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

    11For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.