Verse 21
2 Corinthians 11:21
English Revised Version
21
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
Original Language Text
greek
κατὰ ἀτιμίαν λέγω, ὡς ὅτι ἡμεῖς ⸀ἠσθενήκαμεν· ἐν ᾧ δ’ ἄν τις τολμᾷ, ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ λέγω, τολμῶ κἀγώ.
English Translation
I speak according to dishonor, as we have become weak. In whatever anyone dares, I speak in foolishness, I dare also.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 11 Context
1
Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: nay indeed bear with me.
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2
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might pre...
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But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be c...
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4
For if he that cometh preacheth another Yashua (Jesus), whom we did not preach, or if ye receive a d...
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5
But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in everything we have made it manife...
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Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gosp...
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I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;
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and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, wh...
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9
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.
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10
Wherefore? because I love you not? God (Elohim) knoweth.
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11
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire an occasion; that...
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12
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
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13
And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light.
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14
It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousnes...
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15
I say again, Let no man think me foolish; but if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may g...
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16
That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of gloryin...
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17
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
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For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.
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For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you capti...
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20
I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak...
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21
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
22
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labours more abundantly, in...
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23
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day hav...
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24
in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in pe...
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in labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nake...
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26
Beside those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all th...
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Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is made to stumble, and I burn not?
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If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.
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The God (Elohim) and Father of the Lord Yashua (Jesus), he who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that...
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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, in order to take...
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and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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