2 Corinthians 12:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • 2 Cor 11:16 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I do not lie.
  • 2 Cor 12:7 : 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 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.
  • Job 24:25 : 25 And if it is not so, now, who will make me a liar and make my speech worth nothing?
  • Rom 9:1 : 1 I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
  • 1 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 For we are workers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building. 10 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.
  • 2 Cor 1:18 : 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yes and no.
  • 2 Cor 5:13 : 13 For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
  • 2 Cor 10:8-9 : 8 For 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: 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 10 For his letters, they say, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

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  • 2 Cor 12:1-5
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    85%

    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.

    3And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell; God knows)

    4How he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a person to utter.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
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    81%

    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 11:30
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    30If I must boast, I will boast in the things concerning my weakness.

  • 2 Cor 12:7-11
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    80%

    7And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

    8For this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.

    9And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

    10Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    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 10:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    77%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    76%

    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 11:5-6
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    76%

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

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

  • 2 Cor 5:12
    76%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
    76%

    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.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    75%

    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,

  • Gal 6:12-14
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    12As many as desire to make a good appearance in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only to avoid suffering persecution for the cross of Christ.

    13For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.

    14But God forbid that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • 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.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found to be true.

  • 2 Cor 10:16-17
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    74%

    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 who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

  • Gal 6:3
    74%

    3For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

  • Rom 3:7
    74%

    7For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

  • 1 Thess 2:6
    74%

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

  • 2 Cor 10:2
    74%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 10:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12For we dare not count ourselves among or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves; but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

    13But we will not boast beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even to you.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
    73%

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

  • 2 Cor 11:1
    73%

    1I wish you would bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3Yet 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:

    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.

  • Phil 3:4
    72%

    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:

  • Eph 3:13
    72%

    13Therefore I ask that you not faint at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    72%

    3Giving no offense in anything, that the ministry may not be blamed:

  • 1 Cor 4:3
    72%

    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment; indeed, I do not even judge myself.

  • Rom 9:1
    71%

    1I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,

  • 1 Cor 1:31
    71%

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

  • Gal 4:12
    71%

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