2 Corinthians 11:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.
  • 2 Cor 5:13 : 13 For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.
  • 2 Cor 11:4 : 4 For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.
  • 2 Cor 11:16-17 : 16 I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself. 17 What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.
  • 2 Cor 11:21 : 21 I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.
  • Heb 5:2 : 2 He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;
  • Num 11:29 : 29 And Moses said to him, Are you moved by envy on my account? If only all the Lord's people were prophets, and the Lord might put his spirit on them!
  • Josh 7:7 : 7 And Joshua said, O Lord God, why have you taken us over Jordan only to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction? If only it had been enough for us to keep on the other side of Jordan!
  • 2 Kgs 5:3 : 3 And she said to her master's wife, If only my lord would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would make him well.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.
  • Acts 18:14 : 14 But when Paul was about to say something, Gallio said to the Jews, If this was anything to do with wrongdoing or crime, there would be a reason for me to give you a hearing:
  • Acts 26:29 : 29 And Paul said, It is my prayer to God that, in little or great measure, not only you, but all those hearing me today might be even as I am, but for these chains.
  • 1 Cor 1:21 : 21 For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
  • 1 Cor 4:8 : 8 For even now you are full, even now you have wealth, you have been made kings without us: truly, I would be glad if you were kings, so that we might be kings with you.
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 11:2-3
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    2 For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.

    3 But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-21
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    16 I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.

    17 What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.

    18 Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.

    19 For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.

    20 You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.

    21 I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11 I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

  • Gal 4:11-13
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    11 I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.

    12 My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;

    13 But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5 On account of such a one I will have glory: for myself I will take no glory, but only in my feeble body.

    6 For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.

  • 2 Cor 10:1-2
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    1 Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:

    2 Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8 And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13 Though my desire was to keep him with me, to be my servant in the chains of the good news, in your place:

  • Gal 4:15
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    15 Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.

  • Eph 4:2
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    2 With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

  • Heb 13:22
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    22 But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5 For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

  • 1 Cor 11:1
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    1 So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10 We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

  • 2 Tim 3:10
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    10 But you took as your example my teaching, behaviour, purpose, and faith; my long waiting, my love, my quiet undergoing of trouble;

  • 2 Cor 12:15-16
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    15 And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?

    16 But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.

  • Gal 4:20
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    20 Truly my desire is to be present with you now, using a changed voice; for I am troubled about you.

  • Eph 3:13
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    13 For this reason it is my prayer that you may not become feeble because of my troubles for you, which are your glory.

  • 1 Cor 1:25
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    25 Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23 But God is my witness that it was in pity for you that I did not come to Corinth at that time.

  • Rom 1:10-13
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    10 And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.

    11 For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

    12 That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.

    13 You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19 It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30 If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.

  • 2 Cor 2:9
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    9 And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things.

  • Phil 1:8
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    8 For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.

  • 2 Cor 12:21
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    21 And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.

  • 2 Cor 1:16
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    16 And by way of Corinth to go into Macedonia, and from there to come back again to you, so that you might send me on my way to Judaea.

  • Phil 2:18
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    18 And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30 Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4 My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.

  • 2 Cor 11:11
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    11 Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

  • 2 Cor 2:3-4
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    3 And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.

    4 For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.

  • 1 Cor 2:3
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    3 And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.

  • Rom 9:2
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    2 That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.