2 Corinthians 11:20

For ye bear if a man enslave you, if a man eat you up, if a man receive from you, if a man is insolent, if a man smite you on the face.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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 a man smite you on the face.

In Context

19For ye bear with fools easily when you are wise yourselves.

21I speak with reference to the reproach cast on me, as though we were feeble; but wherein any man is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

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Cross References

Romans 16:17Now I beseech you, brethren, keep a sharp eye over those who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine ye have learned, and turn away from them.

2 Corinthians 1:24not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow-helpers of your joy; for by faith ye stand.

Galatians 4:3So we also, when we were infants, were in bondage under the first elementary principles of the world:

Galatians 4:25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds with Jerusalem that now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Galatians 5:10I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be no otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear condign punishment whosoever 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 →

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