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2 Corinthians 11:21

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I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

I speak {G3004} as concerning {G2596} reproach {G819}, as {G5613} though {G3754} we {G2249} had been weak {G770}. Howbeit {G1161} whereinsoever {G1722}{G3739}{G302} any {G5100} is bold {G5111},(I speak {G3004} foolishly {G1722}{G877},) I am bold {G5111} also {G2504}.

To my shame, I must admit that we have been too “weak” to do such things!

But if anyone dares to boast about something — I’m talking like a fool! — I am just as daring.

To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.

I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

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Cross-References

  • 2 Corinthians 10:10 (5 votes)

    For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:17 (3 votes)

    That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

  • 2 Corinthians 10:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

  • 2 Corinthians 10:2 (3 votes)

    But I beseech [you], that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:22 (2 votes)

    ¶ Are they Hebrews? so [am] I. Are they Israelites? so [am] I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so [am] I.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:27 (2 votes)

    In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

  • 2 Corinthians 13:10 (2 votes)

    Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.