2 Corinthians 11:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • 1 Cor 7:12 : 12 And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;
  • 2 Cor 9:4 : 4 lest 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 11:18-27 : 18 since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast: 19 for gladly do ye bear with the fools -- being wise, 20 for 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; 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; 24 from Jews five times forty `stripes' save one I did receive; 25 thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed; 26 journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren; 27 in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;
  • Phil 3:3-6 : 3 for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust, 4 though I also have `cause of' trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more; 5 circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee! 6 according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:
  • 1 Cor 7:6 : 6 and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

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    16Again 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.

  • 2 Cor 11:18-19
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    18since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:

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

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    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.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    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
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    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.

  • 2 Cor 10:15-17
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    15not boasting of the things not measured, in other men's labours, and having hope -- your faith increasing -- in you to be enlarged, according to our line -- into abundance,

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

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  • 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;

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  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,

    18for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,

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

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

    11wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

    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;

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    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;

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    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?

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

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    31that, according as it hath been written, `He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.'

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    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;

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    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,

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

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    4though I also have `cause of' trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;

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

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    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,

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

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    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;

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    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,

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    15as to wise men I speak -- judge ye what I say:

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    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,

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    14and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold -- fearlessly to speak the word.

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    13For to you I speak -- to the nations -- inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

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    21So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours,

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    14And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

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    17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

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    29that no flesh may glory before Him;

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    1Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

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    17and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set: