2 Corinthians 11:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

2 Cor 12:11-12 : 11 I am become foolish: {G2744} ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though {G2532} I am nothing. 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works.
Gal 2:6-9 : 6 But from those who were reputed to be somewhat (whatsoever {G4218} they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth not man's person) —they, I say, who were of repute imparted nothing to me: 7 but contrariwise, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with [the gospel] of the circumcision 8 (for he that wrought for Peter unto the apostleship of the circumcision wrought for me also unto the Gentiles); 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given unto me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision;
1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

2 Cor 12:11
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11I am become foolish: {G2744} ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though {G2532} I am nothing.
1 Cor 15:9-11
3 verses
79%
9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
2 Cor 11:6-7
2 verses
77%
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 12:13
77%
13For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except {G3361} [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.
1 Cor 9:1-2
2 verses
77%
1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus {G5547} our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?
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.
2 Cor 11:21-22
2 verses
77%
21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet {G1722} whereinsoever {G302} 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.
2 Cor 12:5-6
2 verses
76%
5On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save {G3361} 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 {G5100} from me.
2 Cor 11:16-18
3 verses
76%
16I say again, let no man think me {G1511} foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that {G2504} 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.
2 Cor 11:9-10
2 verses
75%
9and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself].
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.
2 Cor 12:1-2
2 verses
75%
1I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2I know a man in Christ, {G4253} fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.
2 Cor 11:29-30
2 verses
74%
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.
1 Cor 4:6
74%
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.
Gal 1:11
74%
11For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.
2 Cor 11:12
74%
12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein {G1722} they glory, they may be found even as we.
2 Cor 10:8-9
2 verses
74%
8For though {G5037} I should glory {G2532} somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave {G2254} 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.
Phlm 1:8
74%
8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,
Rom 15:20
74%
20yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;
Phil 3:12-13
2 verses
74%
12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.
13Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing [I do], forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Gal 4:12
74%
12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are]. Ye did me no wrong:
1 Cor 9:15
74%
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, {G2570} than that any man should make my glorifying void.
Gal 2:6
73%
6But from those who were reputed to be somewhat (whatsoever {G4218} they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth not man's person) —they, I say, who were of repute imparted nothing to me:
Gal 1:17
73%
17neither went I up to Jerusalem to them that were apostles before me: but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned unto Damascus.
1 Cor 11:1
73%
1Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Phil 3:4
73%
4though I myself might {G2532} have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
Gal 2:2
73%
2And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.
2 Cor 10:2
73%
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.
Phil 1:17
73%
17but the other {G3303} proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.
Rom 15:17-18
2 verses
73%
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 5:12
73%
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.
Col 2:5
72%
5For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
1 Thess 2:6
72%
6nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority None as apostles of Christ.
Acts 11:17
72%
17If then {G5613} God gave unto them the like gift as [he did] also unto us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?
2 Tim 1:11
72%
11whereunto {G1519} I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher.
1 Cor 1:12
72%
12Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I {G3303} am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
2 Cor 12:17
72%
17Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?
2 Cor 9:4
72%
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 {G5287} confidence.