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2 Corinthians 11:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. "

2 Corinthians 11:17

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15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

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2 Corinthians 12:6

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"holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain."

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2 Corinthians 11:1

"I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me."

2 Corinthians 11:2

"For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ."

2 Corinthians 11:3

"But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."

2 Corinthians 11:4

"For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough."

2 Corinthians 11:5

"For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles."

2 Corinthians 11:6

"But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things."

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