2 Corinthians 11:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Phil 3:5 : 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;
  • Rom 11:1 : 1 I say then, Has God cast away His people? Certainly not. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
  • Rom 9:4 : 4 Who are Israelites; to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises;
  • Gen 17:8-9 : 8 And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. 9 And God said to Abraham, You shall keep my covenant therefore, you and your descendants after you in their generations.
  • Exod 3:18 : 18 And they shall listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall say to him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us, and now let us go, we beseech you, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
  • Exod 5:3 : 3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us: let us go, we pray you, a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God; lest he strike us with pestilence or with the sword.
  • Exod 7:16 : 16 And you shall say to him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness, and, behold, you have not listened.
  • Exod 9:1 : 1 Then the LORD said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • Exod 9:13 : 13 And the LORD said to Moses, Rise early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • 2 Chr 20:7 : 7 Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
  • John 8:33-39 : 33 They answered him, We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone: how can you say, You shall be made free? 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And the slave does not abide in the house forever: but the Son abides forever. 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. 37 I know that you are Abraham's descendants; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you. 38 I speak what I have seen with my Father: and you do what you have seen with your father. 39 They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
  • Acts 22:3 : 3 I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of our fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are today.
  • Rom 4:13-18 : 13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham, or to his descendants, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise nullified. 15 Because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression. 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end that the promise might be sure to all the descendants; not to those only who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, 17 As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which do not exist as though they did. 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, So shall your descendants be.

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

  • 23Are 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.

  • 1I say then, Has God cast away His people? Certainly not. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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

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

    10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

  • 11I 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.

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

    17That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as if foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

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

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    1Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

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    3My answer to those who examine me is this,

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    4Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more:

    5Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

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

  • 12But 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.

  • 12Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you: you have not injured me at all.

  • 19And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

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

  • 3I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of our fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are today.

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    13For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

    14And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

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    19For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more.

    20And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win the Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law;

    21To those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

    22To the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.

    23And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it with you.

  • 4My manner of life from my youth, which was at the beginning among my own nation at Jerusalem, all the Jews know;

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

  • 17Since then God gave them the same gift as he did to us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; who was I that I could withstand God?

  • 15We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

  • 11To which I am appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

  • 14And most of the brethren in the Lord, having become confident by my chains, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

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    3For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

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    13For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

    14if by any means I may provoke to emulation those who are my flesh and save some of them.

  • 1Be imitators of me, just as I am of Christ.

  • 30Having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear to be in me.

  • 6But from those who seemed to be something (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me: God accepts no man's person), for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me:

  • 26In 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;

  • 6For 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.

  • 15So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are at Rome also.

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

  • 29And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

  • 8Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do what is fitting,