2 Corinthians 12:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • 2 Cor 11:5 : 5 For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.
  • 2 Cor 11:1 : 1 Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.
  • 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 12:6 : 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 12:12 : 12 Truly the signs of an Apostle were done among you in quiet strength, with wonders and acts of power.
  • Gal 2:6-9 : 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; 7 But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision 8 (Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles); 9 When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision; 10 Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do. 11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. 12 For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways. 14 But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:
  • Luke 17:10 : 10 In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.
  • 1 Cor 3:4-7 : 4 For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men? 5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them. 6 I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase. 7 So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.
  • 1 Cor 3:22 : 22 Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
  • 1 Cor 15:8-9 : 8 And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me. 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.
  • 2 Cor 1:6 : 6 But if we are troubled, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which takes effect through your quiet undergoing of the same troubles which we undergo:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5 For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

    6 But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

    7 Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
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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.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-7
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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.

    7 And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.

  • 2 Cor 11:21-23
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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.

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

    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.

  • 2 Cor 12:12-13
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    12 Truly the signs of an Apostle were done among you in quiet strength, with wonders and acts of power.

    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 12:9-10
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    9 And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.

    10 So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
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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.

  • Gal 4:12
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    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;

  • 2 Cor 12:1
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    1 As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 15:9-11
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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.

  • 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 Cor 10:8-9
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    8 For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:

    9 That I may not seem to have the desire of causing you fear by my letters.

  • 1 Cor 9:15-16
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    15 But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

    16 For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not.

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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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.

  • 2 Cor 11:9-10
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    9 And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.

    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.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17 So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.

    18 And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1 Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    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.

  • 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,

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12 We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.

  • 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.

  • 2 Cor 9:3
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    3 But I have sent the brothers, so that the good things we said about you may be seen to be true, and that, as I said, you may be ready:

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14 For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.

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

  • Rom 11:13
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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:

  • 1 Cor 9:19
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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.

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

  • 2 Cor 10:12
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    12 For we will not make comparison of ourselves with some of those who say good things about themselves: but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and making comparison of themselves with themselves, are not wise.

  • 2 Tim 1:11
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    11 Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;

  • 2 Cor 10:1
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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: