2 Corinthians 11:5

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

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  • 2 Cor 12:11-12 : 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. 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
  • Gal 2:6-9 : 6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed [to be somewhat] in conference added nothing to me: 7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as [the gospel] of the circumcision [was] unto Peter; 8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we [should go] unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which [was bestowed] upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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  • 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 15:9-11
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    79%

    9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

    10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which [was bestowed] upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11 Therefore whether [it were] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • 2 Cor 11:6-7
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    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 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 9:1-2
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    1 ¶ Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:21-22
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    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.

  • 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 11:16-18
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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.

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:9-10
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    9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself].

    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 12:1-2
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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 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
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    29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

    30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

  • 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.

  • Gal 1:11
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    11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

  • 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 10:8-9
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    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.

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

  • Rom 15:20
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    20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

  • Phil 3:12-13
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    12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

    13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

  • 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 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.

  • Gal 2:6
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    6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed [to be somewhat] in conference added nothing to me:

  • Gal 1:17
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    17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

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

  • 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:

  • Gal 2:2
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    2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

  • 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.

  • Phil 1:17
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    17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17 ¶ I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

    18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

  • 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.

  • Col 2:5
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    5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor [yet] of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

  • Acts 11:17
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    17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as [he did] unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?

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    11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

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    12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 12:17
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    17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

  • 2 Cor 9:4
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    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.