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2 Corinthians 11:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. "

2 Corinthians 11:21

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

20 For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

21 To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.

23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

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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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