2 Corinthians 11:21

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.
  • 2 Cor 11:17 : 17 That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.
  • 2 Cor 11:22-27 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 10:1-2 : 1 Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you: 2 yea, 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 13:10 : 10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.
  • 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.

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  • 2 Cor 11:22-23
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    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 11:16-20
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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.

    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.

  • 2 Cor 12:10-11
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    10Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

    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 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?

  • 1 Cor 4:10-11
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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.

    11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

  • 2 Cor 10:1-2
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    1Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:

    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 11:29-30
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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?

    30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-12
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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.

    10For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

    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 12:5-6
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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 11:1
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    1Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

  • 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.

  • 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 Thess 2:2
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    2but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.

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

  • 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.

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Eph 6:20
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    20for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

  • Gal 4:11-12
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    11I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.

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

  • 2 Cor 13:3
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    3seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you:

  • 2 Cor 9:4
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    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.

  • Phil 1:20
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    20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

  • 1 Cor 9:22
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    22To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

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

  • Rom 15:15
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    15But I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,

  • 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.

  • 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;

  • 2 Cor 5:12-13
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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.

    13For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.

  • 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.