2 Corinthians 11:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ 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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    89%

    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.

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

    23Are 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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    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.

  • 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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    78%

    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.

    19For 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
    77%

    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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    10As 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.

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

    7Have 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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    30If 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.

    8For 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:

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

  • 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.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And 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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    3Yet 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:

    4Lest 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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    12But 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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    15Therefore [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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    16To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

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

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

  • Gal 6:3
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    3For 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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    11Let 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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    16But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

  • Prov 26:5
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    5Answer 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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    3But 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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    14For 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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    25Because 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.

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

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