2 Corinthians 11:20
For you permit it when someone guides you into servitude, even if he devours you, even if he takes from you, even if he is extolled, even if he strikes you repeatedly on the face.
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In Context
19For you freely accept the foolish, though you yourselves claim to be wise.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:30JOD. He shall give his cheek to those who strike him; he shall be saturated with reproaches.
Romans 16:17But I beg you, brothers, to take note of those who cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the doctrine that you have learned, and to turn away from them.
2 Corinthians 1:24not because we have dominion over your faith, but because we are assistants of your joy. For by faith you stand.
Galatians 4:3So also we, when we were children, were subservient to the influences of the world.
Galatians 4:25For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, which is related to the Jerusalem of the present time, and it serves with her sons.
Galatians 5:10I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will accept nothing of the kind. However, he who disturbs you shall bear the judgment, whomever he may be.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 11:17-22
The Apostle Asserts His Claims. ( a. d. 57.) 16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if… Read the whole commentary →