2 Corinthians 11:20

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Gal 2:4 : 4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
  • Gal 4:3 : 3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
  • 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
  • Gal 5:10 : 10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
  • Gal 6:12 : 12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
  • Isa 50:6 : 6 I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.
  • Lam 3:30 : 30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
  • Luke 6:29 : 29 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.
  • Rom 16:17-18 : 17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them. 18 For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
  • 1 Cor 4:11 : 11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

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    18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

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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.

  • Gal 5:15
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    15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.

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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.

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    10 We 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.

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    33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

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    25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

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    4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

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    29 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.

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