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2 Corinthians 11:1
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2 Corinthians 11:1
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Paul and the False Apostles
11 I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!
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2 Corinthians 11:1
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2 Corinthians 11:1
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Paul and the False Apostles
11 I hope you will put up with(A) me in a little foolishness.(B) Yes, please put up with me!
2 Corinthians 11:1
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2 Corinthians 11:1
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11 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
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2 Corinthians 11:16-17
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2 Corinthians 11:16-17
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Paul's Sufferings as an Apostle
16 I repeat, (A)let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 17 What I am saying (B)with this boastful confidence, (C)I say not as the Lord would[a] but as a fool.
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- 2 Corinthians 11:17 Greek not according to the Lord
2 Corinthians 11:16-17
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2 Corinthians 11:16-17
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Paul Boasts About His Sufferings
16 I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool.(A) But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting. 17 In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would,(B) but as a fool.(C)
2 Corinthians 11:16-17
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2 Corinthians 11:16-17
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16 I say again, let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
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2 Corinthians 12:6
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2 Corinthians 12:6
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6 though if I should wish to boast, (A)I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.
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2 Corinthians 12:6
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2 Corinthians 12:6
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6 Even if I should choose to boast,(A) I would not be a fool,(B) because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say,
2 Corinthians 12:6
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2 Corinthians 12:6
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6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
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2 Corinthians 12:11
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2 Corinthians 12:11
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Concern for the Corinthian Church
11 (A)I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was (B)not at all inferior to these super-apostles, (C)even though I am nothing.
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2 Corinthians 12:11
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2 Corinthians 12:11
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Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians
11 I have made a fool of myself,(A) but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,”[a](B) even though I am nothing.(C)
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- 2 Corinthians 12:11 Or the most eminent apostles
2 Corinthians 12:11
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2 Corinthians 12:11
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11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
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