2 Corinthians 11:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 2 Cor 12:11-12 : 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. 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were performed among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
  • Gal 2:6-9 : 6 But 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: 7 But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised was committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter; 8 (For He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked mightily in me toward the Gentiles:) 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 12:11
    83%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 15:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

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

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

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13For in what way were you inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    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?

    2If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you: for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 11:21-22
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    77%

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

    22Are 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
    2 verses
    76%

    5Of such a one will I boast, yet of myself I will not boast, but in my weaknesses.

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9And when I was with you and in need, I was a burden to no one: for what I lacked the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied. And in all things I have kept myself from being a burden to you, and so I will keep myself.

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

  • 2 Cor 12:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

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

    2I knew a man in Christ over fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I cannot tell, or whether out of the body, I cannot tell; God knows) who was caught up to the third heaven.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
    74%

    6And these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that none of you be puffed up for one against another.

  • Gal 1:11
    74%

    11But I make known to you, brothers, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    74%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has 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.

  • Phlm 1:8
    74%

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

  • Rom 15:20
    74%

    20Yes, I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation:

  • Phil 3:12-13
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    12Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

    13Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,

  • Gal 4:12
    74%

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

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    74%

    15But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • Gal 2:6
    73%

    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:

  • Gal 1:17
    73%

    17Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia and returned again to Damascus.

  • 1 Cor 11:1
    73%

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

  • Phil 3:4
    73%

    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:

  • Gal 2:2
    73%

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

  • 2 Cor 10:2
    73%

    2But 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.

  • Phil 1:17
    73%

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

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in what pertains to God.

    18For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in making the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,

  • 2 Cor 5:12
    73%

    12For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you an opportunity to boast on our behalf, so that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

  • Col 2:5
    72%

    5For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing to see your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
    72%

    6Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

  • Acts 11:17
    72%

    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?

  • 2 Tim 1:11
    72%

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

  • 1 Cor 1:12
    72%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 12:17
    72%

    17Did I make a gain of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

  • 2 Cor 9:4
    72%

    4Lest if those of Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to say you) should be ashamed of this same confident boasting.