2 Corinthians 11:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

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  • Phil 3:5 : 5 Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:
  • Rom 11:1 : 1 So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
  • Rom 9:4 : 4 Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:
  • Gen 17:8-9 : 8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God. 9 And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.
  • Exod 3:18 : 18 And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God.
  • Exod 5:3 : 3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.
  • Exod 7:16 : 16 And say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go so that they may give me worship in the waste land; but up to now you have not given ear to his words.
  • Exod 9:1 : 1 Then the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.
  • Exod 9:13 : 13 And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh, and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.
  • 2 Chr 20:7 : 7 Did you not, O Lord our God, after driving out the people of this land before your people Israel, give it to the seed of Abraham, your friend, for ever?
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.
  • John 8:33-39 : 33 They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free? 34 And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin. 35 Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does. 36 If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free. 37 I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you. 38 I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house. 39 In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.
  • Acts 22:3 : 3 I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.
  • Rom 4:13-18 : 13 For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power; 15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken. 16 For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, 17 (As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were. 18 Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 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.

  • 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

  • 1 So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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

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    9 For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

    10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11 If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

  • 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.

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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.

  • 1 Cor 9:1-3
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    1 Am I not free? am I not an Apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are you not my work in the Lord?

    2 If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.

    3 My answer to those who are judging me is this.

  • Phil 3:4-5
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    4 Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:

    5 Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:

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    29 Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?

    30 If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.

  • 12 But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.

  • 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;

  • 19 And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you:

  • 12 That is, that some of you say, I am of Paul; some say, I am of Apollos; some say, I am of Cephas; and some say, I am Christ's.

  • 3 I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.

  • Gal 1:13-14
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    13 For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

    14 And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

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    19 For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.

    20 And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.

    21 To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

    22 To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.

    23 And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.

  • 4 All the Jews have knowledge of my way of life from my early years, as it was from the start among my nation, and at Jerusalem;

  • 4 For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?

  • 10 As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.

  • 17 If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

  • 15 We being Jews by birth, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

  • 11 Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;

  • 14 And most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all the stronger to give the word of God without fear.

  • Rom 9:3-4
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    3 For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:

    4 Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:

  • Rom 11:13-14
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    13 But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:

    14 If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.

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

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

  • 6 But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;

  • 26 In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

  • 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.

  • 15 For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome.

  • 17 But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.

  • 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

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