2 Corinthians 11:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

That I speake, I speake it not after the Lord: but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting.

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  • 1 Cor 7:12 : 12 But to ye remnant I speake, & not ye Lord, If any brother haue a wife, ye beleeueth not, if she be cotent to dwell with him, let him not forsake her.
  • 2 Cor 9:4 : 4 Lest if they of Macedonia come with me, and finde you vnprepared, we (that wee may not say, you) should be ashamed in this my constant boasting.
  • 2 Cor 11:18-27 : 18 Seeing that many reioyce after the flesh, I will reioyce also. 19 For ye suffer fooles gladly, because that yee are wise. 20 For ye suffer, euen if a man bring you into bondage, if a man deuoure you, if a man take your goods, if a man exalt himselfe, if a man smite you on the face. 21 I speake as concerning the reproche: as though that we had bene weake: but wherein any ma is bold (I speake foolishly) I am bold also. 22 They are Hebrues, so am I: they are Israelites, so am I: they are the seede of Abraham, so am I: 23 They are the ministers of Christ (I speake as a foole) I am more: in labours more aboundant: in stripes aboue measure: in prison more plenteously: in death oft. 24 Of the Iewes fiue times receiued I fourtie stripes saue one. 25 I was thrise beaten with roddes: I was once stoned: I suffered thrise shipwracke: night and day haue I bene in the deepe sea. 26 In iourneying I was often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of mine owne nation, in perils among the Gentiles, in perils in the citie, in perils in wildernes, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren, 27 In wearinesse and painefulnesse, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in colde and in nakednesse.
  • Phil 3:3-6 : 3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirite, and reioyce in Christ Iesus, and haue no confidence in the flesh: 4 Though I might also haue confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, much more I, 5 Circumcised the eight day, of the kinred of Israel, of the tribe of Beniamin, an Ebrewe of the Ebrewes, by the Lawe a Pharise. 6 Concerning zeale, I persecuted ye Church: touching the righteousnesse which is in the Law, I was vnrebukeable.
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Nowe concerning virgines, I haue no commaundement of the Lorde: but I giue mine aduise, as one that hath obtained mercie of the Lord to be faithfull.
  • 1 Cor 7:6 : 6 But I speake this by permission, not by commandement.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 11:16
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    16I say againe, Let no man thinke that I am foolish, or els take mee euen as a foole, that I also may boast my selfe a litle.

  • 2 Cor 11:18-19
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    18Seeing that many reioyce after the flesh, I will reioyce also.

    19For ye suffer fooles gladly, because that yee are wise.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    21I speake as concerning the reproche: as though that we had bene weake: but wherein any ma is bold (I speake foolishly) I am bold also.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5Of such a man will I reioyce: of my selfe will I not reioyce, except it bee of mine infirmities.

    6For though I woulde reioyce, I should not be a foole, for I will say the trueth: but I refraine, lest any man should thinke of me aboue that hee seeth in me, or that he heareth of me.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing.

  • 2 Cor 10:15-17
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    15Not boasting of things which are without our measure: that is, of other mens labours: and we hope, when your faith shall increase, to bee magnified by you according to our line aboundantly,

    16And to preache the Gospel in those regions which are beyonde you: not to reioyce in another mans line, that is, in the thinges that are prepared alreadie.

    17But let him that reioyceth, reioyce in the Lorde.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-9
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    7Looke yee on things after the appearance? If any man trust in himselfe that hee is Christes, let him consider this againe of himself, that as he is Christes, euen so are we Christes.

    8For though I shoulde boast somewhat more of our authoritie, which the Lorde hath giuen vs for edification, and not for your destruction, I should haue no shame.

    9This I say, that I may not seeme as it were to feare you with letters.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17I haue therefore whereof I may reioyce in Christ Iesus in those things which pertaine to God.

    18For I dare not speake of any thing, which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient in worde and deede,

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30If I must needes reioyce, I will reioyce of mine infirmities.

  • 2 Cor 11:10-12
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    10The trueth of Christ is in me, that this reioycing shall not be shut vp against me in the regions of Achaia.

    11Wherefore? because I loue you not? God knoweth.

    12But what I doe, that will I doe: that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like vnto vs in that wherein they reioyce.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2And this I require you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same confidence, wherewith I thinke to bee bolde against some, which esteeme vs as though wee walked according to the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5Verely I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chiefe Apostles.

    6And though I be rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge, but among you wee haue beene made manifest to the vttermost, in all things.

    7Haue I committed an offence, because I abased my selfe, that ye might be exalted, and because I preached to you ye Gospell of God freely?

  • 2 Cor 12:1
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    1It is not expedient for me no doubt to reioyce: for I will come to visions and reuelations of the Lorde.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
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    31That, according as it is written, Hee that reioyceth, let him reioyce in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12For we prayse not our selues againe vnto you, but giue you an occasion to reioyce of vs, that ye may haue to answere against them, which reioyce in the face, and not in the heart.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if that I haue boasted any thing to him of you, I haue not bene ashamed: but as I haue spoken vnto you all things in trueth, euen so our boasting vnto Titus was true.

  • Gal 1:11
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    11Now I certifie you, brethren, that ye Gospel which was preached of me, was not after man.

  • Phil 3:4
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    4Though I might also haue confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, much more I,

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11Wherefore, whether it were I, or they, so we preach, and so haue ye beleeued.

  • 2 Cor 10:12-13
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    12For wee dare not make our selues of the nomber, or to compare our selues to them, which praise themselues: but they vnderstand not that they measure themselues with themselues, and compare themselues with themselues.

    13But we wil not reioyce of things, which are not within our measure, but according to the measure of the line, whereof God hath distributed vnto vs a measure to attaine euen vnto you.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1Woulde to God, yee coulde suffer a litle my foolishnes, & in deede, ye suffer me.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I haue vsed none of these things: neither wrote I these things, that it should be so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vaine.

  • Jas 4:16
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    16But nowe ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
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    3Nowe haue I sent the brethren, lest our reioycing ouer you shoulde bee in vaine in this behalfe, that yee (as I haue sayde) be readie:

    4Lest if they of Macedonia come with me, and finde you vnprepared, we (that wee may not say, you) should be ashamed in this my constant boasting.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
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    18Let no man deceiue himselfe: If any man among you seeme to be wise in this world, let him be a foole, that he may be wise.

    19For the wisdome of this worlde is foolishnesse with God: for it is written, He catcheth the wise in their owne craftinesse.

  • 1 Cor 10:15
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    15I speake as vnto them which haue vnderstanding: iugde ye what I say.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Nowe these things, brethren, I haue figuratiuely applied vnto mine owne selfe and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye might learne by vs, that no man presume aboue that which is written, that one swell not against another for any mans cause.

  • Phil 1:14
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    14In so much that many of the brethren in the Lord are boldened through my bandes, and dare more frankely speake the word.

  • Rom 11:13
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    13For in that I speake to you Gentiles, in as much as I am the Apostle of ye Gentiles, I magnifie mine office,

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10We are fooles for Christes sake, and ye are wise in Christ: we are weake, and ye are strong: ye are honourable, and we are despised.

  • 1 Cor 3:21
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    21Therefore let no man reioyce in men: for all things are yours.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But God forbid that I should reioyce, but in ye crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ, whereby the world is crucified vnto me, & I vnto ye world.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preache the Gospel, not with wisdome of wordes, lest the crosse of Christ should be made of none effect.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29That no flesh shoulde reioyce in his presence.

  • Rom 9:1
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    17But the others of loue, knowing that I am set for the defence of the Gospell.