2 Corinthians 11:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as if foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

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  • 1 Cor 7:12 : 12 But to the rest I speak, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.
  • 2 Cor 9:4 : 4 Lest if those of Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to say you) should be ashamed of this same confident boasting.
  • 2 Cor 11:18-27 : 18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I will also boast. 19 For you gladly bear with fools, seeing that you yourselves are wise. 20 For you bear it if someone brings you into bondage, if someone devours you, if someone takes from you, if someone exalts himself, if someone strikes you on the face. 21 I speak concerning reproach, as though we were weak. But in whatever anyone 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 labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. 24 From the Jews five times I received forty lashes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 In weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
  • Phil 3:3-6 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. 4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more: 5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 Regarding zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness in the law, blameless.
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Now concerning virgins: I have no command from the Lord, yet I give my judgment as one whom the Lord in his mercy has made trustworthy.
  • 1 Cor 7:6 : 6 But I speak this by permission, and not as a command.

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    16 I say again, let no one think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast a little.

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    18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I will also boast.

    19 For you gladly bear with fools, seeing that you yourselves are wise.

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    21 I speak concerning reproach, as though we were weak. But in whatever anyone is bold—I speak foolishly—I am bold also.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5 Of such a one will I boast, yet of myself I will not boast, but in my weaknesses.

    6 For though I would desire to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But now I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above that which he sees me to be, or that he hears of me.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11 I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 2 Cor 10:15-17
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    15 Not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

    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.

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    7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If anyone trusts that he is Christ's, let him think this again in himself, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

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    17 Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in what pertains to God.

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    30 If I must boast, I will boast in the things concerning my weakness.

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

    11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.

    12 But what I do, I will continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.

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    2 But I plead with you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence by which I think to be bold against some who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

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    5 For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.

    6 Even though I am unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly revealed among you in all things.

    7 Did I commit a sin by humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God freely?

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    1 It is not profitable for me, doubtless, to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

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    31 That, as it is written, He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

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    3 Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain regarding this matter; that, as I said, you may be ready:

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    17 But the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.