2 Corinthians 11:16

World English Bible (2000)

I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 11:1 : 1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
  • 2 Cor 11:21-23 : 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), 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 servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 11:17-23
    7 verses
    89%

    17That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

    18Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

    19For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

    20For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

    21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), 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.

    23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    5On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

    6For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
    81%

    11I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
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    78%

    18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

    19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."

  • 2 Cor 11:1
    77%

    1I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    76%

    5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

    6But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

    7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

  • 2 Cor 11:30
    76%

    30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-9
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    7Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.

    8For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

    9that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

  • 1 Cor 4:10
    74%

    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
    74%

    2Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
    74%

    6Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
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    3But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

    4so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
    73%

    12For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    73%

    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

  • 2 Cor 11:15
    73%

    15It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
    73%

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

  • 2 Cor 10:16-17
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    73%

    16so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

    17But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

  • 1 Cor 15:11
    73%

    11Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

  • Gal 6:3
    73%

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

  • Rom 15:17
    72%

    17I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

  • 2 Cor 10:11-12
    2 verses
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    11Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

    12For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

  • 2 Cor 12:16
    72%

    16But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.

  • Prov 26:5
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    5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    72%

    15But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • 1 Cor 11:1
    71%

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

  • Gal 4:12
    71%

    12I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

  • 1 Cor 4:3
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    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
    71%

    14For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

  • Phil 3:4
    71%

    4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

  • 1 Cor 1:25
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    25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

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

  • 2 Cor 12:13
    70%

    13For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

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