2 Corinthians 11:16

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I repeat, let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me as you would a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

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  • 2 Cor 11:1 : 1 I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Indeed, you are bearing with me.
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 For if I desire to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone think more of me than what they see in me or hear from me.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become foolish in boasting; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you, because I am in no way inferior to the 'super-apostles,' even though I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For you gladly put up with fools, since you are so wise.
  • 2 Cor 11:21-23 : 21 To my shame, I must admit that we were too weak for that! Yet whatever anyone else dares to boast about—I am speaking like a fool—I also dare to boast. 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more so: in labors more abundant, in stripes beyond measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.

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  • 2 Cor 11:17-23
    7 verses
    89%

    17What I am saying, I do not say as from the Lord, but as if in foolishness, with this confidence of boasting.

    18Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.

    19For you gladly put up with fools, since you are so wise.

    20In fact, you put up with anyone who enslaves you, devours you, takes advantage of you, exalts himself, or strikes you in the face.

    21To my shame, I must admit that we were too weak for that! Yet whatever anyone else dares to boast about—I am speaking like a fool—I also dare to boast.

    22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

    23Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more so: in labors more abundant, in stripes beyond measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    5On behalf of this man I will boast, but concerning myself I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

    6For if I desire to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone think more of me than what they see in me or hear from me.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
    81%

    11I have become foolish in boasting; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you, because I am in no way inferior to the 'super-apostles,' even though I am nothing.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18Let no one deceive themselves. If anyone among you thinks they are wise in this age, let them become foolish so that they may become wise.

    19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written, 'He catches the wise in their craftiness.'

  • 2 Cor 11:1
    77%

    1I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Indeed, you are bearing with me.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
    76%

    10As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    76%

    5I do not consider myself in any way inferior to these 'super-apostles.'

    6Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this clear to you in every way and in all things.

    7Did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?

  • 2 Cor 11:30
    76%

    30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7Do you look only at outward appearances? If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, let him consider again that just as he belongs to Christ, so also do we.

    8Even if I boast a little more about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

    9I do not want to seem as though I am trying to frighten you with my letters.

  • 1 Cor 4:10
    74%

    10We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, but we are dishonored!

  • 2 Cor 10:2
    74%

    2I beg you that when I am present, I will not have to be bold with the confidence I consider using against some, who think we live according to the flesh.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
    74%

    6Brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over and against another.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3But I have sent the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter might not be empty, so that you may be ready, just as I said.

    4Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we would be ashamed—not to mention you—in this confidence of boasting.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
    73%

    12We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    73%

    12And I will keep on doing what I am doing, so that I can cut off the opportunity of those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.

  • 2 Cor 11:15
    73%

    15It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their deeds.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
    73%

    1Boasting is indeed not profitable for me. But I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 10:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast in work already done in another person's area.

    17But, 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'

  • 1 Cor 15:11
    73%

    11Whether then it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

  • Gal 6:3
    73%

    3For if anyone thinks they are something when they are nothing, they deceive themselves.

  • Rom 15:17
    72%

    17Therefore, I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God.

  • 2 Cor 10:11-12
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    72%

    11Let such people realize that what we are in our letters while absent, we will be in our actions when present.

    12We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they lack understanding.

  • 2 Cor 12:16
    72%

    16But be that as it may, I did not burden you. Rather, being crafty, I caught you with deceit.

  • Prov 26:5
    72%

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    72%

    15But I have not made use of any of these rights, and I am not writing this to make it happen for me. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.

  • 1 Cor 11:1
    71%

    1Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.

  • Gal 4:12
    71%

    12I beg you, brothers: Become like me, for I also became like you. You have done me no wrong.

  • 1 Cor 4:3
    71%

    3But to me, it is of little importance to be judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
    71%

    14For if I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting about you to Titus has been found to be true as well.

  • Phil 3:4
    71%

    4Though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks they have grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

  • 1 Cor 1:25
    71%

    25For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    71%

    10For am I now trying to win the approval of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

    11Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
    70%

    13For in what way were you less favored than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

  • 1 Cor 9:2
    70%

    2If I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.