2 Corinthians 11:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Would to God ye could bear with me a little in [my] folly: and indeed bear with me.

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  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye [yourselves] are wise.
  • 2 Cor 5:13 : 13 For whether we be beside ourselves, [it is] to God: or whether we be sober, [it is] for your cause.
  • 2 Cor 11:4 : 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with [him].
  • 2 Cor 11:16-17 : 16 ¶ 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. 17 That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
  • 2 Cor 11:21 : 21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
  • 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.
  • Heb 5:2 : 2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
  • Num 11:29 : 29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, [and] that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
  • Josh 7:7 : 7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
  • 2 Kgs 5:3 : 3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord [were] with the prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 Then Jesus answered and said, ‹O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.›
  • Acts 18:14 : 14 And when Paul was now about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O [ye] Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
  • Acts 26:29 : 29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
  • 1 Cor 1:21 : 21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 4:8 : 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 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.

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  • 2 Cor 11:2-3
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    2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.

    3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-21
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    16¶ 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.

    17That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

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

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

    20For 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.

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

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13For 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.

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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.

  • Gal 4:11-13
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    11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

    12¶ Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not injured me at all.

    13Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

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

    6For 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.

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    1¶ Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

    2But 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.

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    8¶ Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

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    13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

  • Gal 4:15
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    15Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

  • Eph 4:2
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    2¶ With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

  • Heb 13:22
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    22And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10We [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.

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  • 2 Cor 12:15-16
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    15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

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

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    20I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

  • Eph 3:13
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    13Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

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    25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

  • Rom 1:10-13
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    10Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

    11For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

    12That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

    13Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

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    19Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

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

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    9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

  • Phil 1:8
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    8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

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    21[And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

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    16And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.

  • Phil 2:18
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    18For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

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    30Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear [to be] in me.

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    4Great [is] my boldness of speech toward you, great [is] my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

  • 2 Cor 11:11
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    11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

  • 2 Cor 2:3-4
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    3And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.

    4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

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    3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

  • Rom 9:2
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    2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.