2 Corinthians 11:31 — Meaning and Application

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“The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.”

2 Corinthians 11:31

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Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

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2 Corinthians 11:1

"Would to God ye could bear with me a little in {my} folly: and indeed bear with me. {indeed bear...: or, indeed ye do bear with me}"

2 Corinthians 11:2

"For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present {you as} a chaste virgin to Christ."

2 Corinthians 11:3

"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."

2 Corinthians 11:4

"For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or {if} ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with {him}. {with him: or, with me}"

2 Corinthians 11:5

"For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles."

2 Corinthians 11:6

"But though {I be} rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things."

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