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2 Corinthians 11:5 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" For I suppose I was ➔ not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. "
2 Corinthians 11:5
Verse in Context
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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.
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.
For I suppose I was ➔ not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
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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."
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."
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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