2 Corinthians 11:17

American Standard Version (1901)

That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:12 : 12 But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.
  • 2 Cor 9:4 : 4 lest 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 11:18-27 : 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise [yourselves] . 20 For 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. 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. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 26 [ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
  • Phil 3:3-6 : 3 for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh: 4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.
  • 1 Cor 7:6 : 6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

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  • 2 Cor 11:16
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    16I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.

  • 2 Cor 11:18-19
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    18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    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.

  • 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.

  • 2 Cor 10:15-17
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    15not glorying beyond [our] measure, [that is], in other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto [further] abundance,

    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.

  • 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.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

    18For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • 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 11:10-12
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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.

    11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

    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 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.

  • 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 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.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
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    31that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

  • 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 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.

  • Gal 1:11
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    11For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.

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

  • 2 Cor 10:12-13
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    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.

    13But we will not glory beyond [our] measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.

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

  • 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.

  • Jas 4:16
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    16But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • 1 Cor 10:15
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    15I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

  • 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.

  • Phil 1:14
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    14and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

  • Rom 11:13
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    13But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 3:21
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    21Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29that no flesh should glory before God.

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    1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

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    17but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.