2 Corinthians 11:20
For ye suffer, euen if a man bring you into bondage, if a man deuoure you, if a man take your goods, if a man exalt himselfe, if a man smite you on the face.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
19For ye suffer fooles gladly, because that yee are wise.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:30Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproches.
Romans 16:17Now I beseech you brethren, marke them diligently which cause diuision and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye haue learned, and auoide them.
2 Corinthians 1:24Not that wee haue dominion ouer your faith, but wee are helpers of your ioy: for by faith yee stande.
Galatians 4:3Euen so, we when wee were children, were in bondage vnder the rudiments of the world.
Galatians 4:25(For Agar or Sina is a mountaine in Arabia, and it answereth to Hierusalem which nowe is) and she is in bondage with her children.
Galatians 5:10I haue trust in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but hee that troubleth you, shall beare his condemnation, whosoeuer he 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 →