2 Corinthians 12:11

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 2 Cor 11:5 : 5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
  • 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 11:16-17 : 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. 17 That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
  • 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 12:12 : 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
  • Gal 2:6-9 : 6 But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me, 7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision 8 (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles); 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision. 10 They only asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I was also zealous to do. 11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
  • Luke 17:10 : 10 Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.'"
  • 1 Cor 3:4-7 : 4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly? 5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him? 6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
  • 1 Cor 3:22 : 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
  • 1 Cor 15:8-9 : 8 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
  • 2 Cor 1:6 : 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

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  • 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 11:16-18
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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.

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

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

  • 2 Cor 12:5-7
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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.

    7 By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

  • 2 Cor 11:21-23
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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.

    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.

  • 2 Cor 12:12-13
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    12 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

    13 For 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.

  • 2 Cor 12:9-10
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    9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

    10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
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    29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?

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

  • Gal 4:12
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    12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

  • 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 15:9-11
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    9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

    10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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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.

  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
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    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,

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

  • 1 Cor 9:15-16
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    15 But 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.

    16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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    1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?

    2 If 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.

  • 2 Cor 11:9-10
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    9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

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

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

    18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    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.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • 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.

  • 2 Cor 12:15-16
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    15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

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

  • 2 Cor 9:3
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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,

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14 For 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.

  • 1 Cor 11:1
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    1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

  • Rom 11:13
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    13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

  • 1 Cor 9:19
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    19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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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.

  • 2 Cor 10:12
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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.

  • 2 Tim 1:11
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    11 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

  • 2 Cor 10:1
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    1 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.