2 Corinthians 11:16

King James Version 1611 (Original)

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

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  • 2 Cor 11:1 : 1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
  • 2 Cor 11:21-23 : 21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

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  • 2 Cor 11:17-23
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    17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

    18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

    19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

    20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

    21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

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

    23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

    6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
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    18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

    19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

    6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

    7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-9
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    7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

    8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

    9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
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    3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:

    4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • 2 Cor 11:15
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    15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
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    1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 10:16-17
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    16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

    17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • Gal 6:3
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    3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

  • Rom 15:17
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    17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

  • 2 Cor 10:11-12
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    11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

    12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

  • 2 Cor 12:16
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    16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

  • Prov 26:5
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    5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

  • 1 Cor 11:1
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    1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

  • Gal 4:12
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    12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.

  • 1 Cor 4:3
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    3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

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

  • 1 Cor 1:25
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    25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

    11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.