2 Corinthians 11:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 11:1 : 1 O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 for gladly do ye bear with the fools -- being wise,
  • 2 Cor 11:21-23 : 21 in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say `it' -- I also am bold. 22 Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also! 23 ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    17That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;

    18since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:

    19for gladly do ye bear with the fools -- being wise,

    20for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;

    21in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say `it' -- I also am bold.

    22Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!

    23ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    5Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,

    6for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

  • 2 Cor 12:11
    81%

    11I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

    19for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

  • 2 Cor 11:1
    77%

    1O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:

  • 2 Cor 11:10
    76%

    10The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
    3 verses
    76%

    5for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

    6and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

    7The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?

  • 2 Cor 11:30
    76%

    30if to boast it behoveth `me', of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

  • 2 Cor 10:7-9
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    7The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we `are' Christ's;

    8for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;

    9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,

  • 1 Cor 4:10
    74%

    10we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

  • 2 Cor 10:2
    74%

    2and I beseech `you', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

  • 1 Cor 4:6
    74%

    6And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready,

    4lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
    73%

    12for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    73%

    12and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

  • 2 Cor 11:15
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    15no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
    73%

    1To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 10:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16in the `places' beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;

    17and he who is boasting -- in the Lord let him boast;

  • 1 Cor 15:11
    73%

    11whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.

  • Gal 6:3
    73%

    3for if any one doth think `himself' to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;

  • Rom 15:17
    72%

    17I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,

  • 2 Cor 10:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, `we are' in deed.

    12For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,

  • 2 Cor 12:16
    72%

    16And be it `so', I -- I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you;

  • Prov 26:5
    72%

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    72%

    15And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for `it is' good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;

  • 1 Cor 11:1
    71%

    1Followers of me become ye, as I also `am' of Christ.

  • Gal 4:12
    71%

    12Become as I `am' -- because I also `am' as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

  • 1 Cor 4:3
    71%

    3and to me it is for a very little thing that by you I may be judged, or by man's day, but not even myself do I judge,

  • 2 Cor 7:14
    71%

    14because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,

  • Phil 3:4
    71%

    4though I also have `cause of' trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I 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 now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

    11And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,

  • 2 Cor 12:13
    70%

    13for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

  • 1 Cor 9:2
    70%

    2if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.