2 Corinthians 11:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Cor 7:12 : 12 But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
  • 2 Cor 9:4 : 4 so 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 11:18-27 : 18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast. 19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise. 20 For 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. 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. 24 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
  • Phil 3:3-6 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; 4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
  • 1 Cor 7:6 : 6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:18-19
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    18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    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.

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

    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
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    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 10:15-17
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    15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

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

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

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    7 Do 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.

    8 For 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,

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

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

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

    11 Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

    12 But 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.

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    2 Yes, 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.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

    6 But 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.

    7 Or 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 12:1
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    1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
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    31 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12 For 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.

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

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    12 For 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.

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    3 But 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,

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    6 Now 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.

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