2 Corinthians 11:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Paul’s Sufferings for Christ I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 11:1 : 1 Paul and His Opponents I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 The Signs of an Apostle I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those“super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For since you are so wise, you put up with fools gladly.
  • 2 Cor 11:21-23 : 21 (To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about(I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing. 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. 23 Are they servants of Christ?(I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

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  • 2 Cor 11:17-23
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    89%

    17What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

    18Since many are boasting according to human standards, I too will boast.

    19For since you are so wise, you put up with fools gladly.

    20For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

    21(To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about(I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing.

    22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

    23Are they servants of Christ?(I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

    6For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11The Signs of an Apostle I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those“super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
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    18Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

    19For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written,“He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

  • 2 Cor 11:1
    77%

    1Paul and His Opponents I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“super-apostles.”

    6And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

    7Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge?

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show my weakness.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-9
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    7You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.

    8For if I boast somewhat more about our authority that the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of doing so.

    9I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored!

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2now I ask that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence that(I expect) I will dare to use against some who consider us to be behaving according to human standards.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
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    3But I am sending these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready just as I kept telling them.

    4For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated(not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who take pride in outward appearance and not in what is in the heart.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.

  • 2 Cor 11:15
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    15Therefore it is not surprising his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
    73%

    1Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 10:16-17
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    16so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.

    17But the one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 15:11
    73%

    11Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

  • Gal 6:3
    73%

    3For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

  • Rom 15:17
    72%

    17So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

  • 2 Cor 10:11-12
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    11Let such a person consider this: What we say by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

    12Paul’s Mission For we would not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves. But when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

  • 2 Cor 12:16
    72%

    16But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

  • Prov 26:5
    72%

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own opinion.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    72%

    15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

  • 1 Cor 11:1
    71%

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

  • Gal 4:12
    71%

    12I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

  • 1 Cor 4:3
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    3So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.

  • Phil 3:4
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    4– though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:

  • 1 Cor 1:25
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    25For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!

    11Paul’s Vindication of His Apostleship Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.