2 Corinthians 11:20

ye bear it, even if any one enslave you, if any devour you, if any take your substance, if any be lifted up, yea if any one smite you on the face.

1770 John Worsley NT

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 willingly, being yourselves so wise:

21I speak of their reproaches, as if we were weak: but whereinsoever any one may be confident (though I speak foolishly) I may be confident too.

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Cross References

Romans 16:17Now I exhort you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned:

2 Corinthians 1:24not that we are lords over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

Galatians 4:3So we when we were children, were in servitude under the elements of the world:

Galatians 4:25a rock, is expressive of mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to the present Jerusalem, which is in bondage with her children.

Galatians 5:10that ye will not think otherwise: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgement, 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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