2 Corinthians 11:21 Cross References - ABU

²¹ I say it as a reproach, that we were weak. But in whatever any one is bold (I say it in foolishness), I also am bold.

¹ NOW I, Paul, myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you; ² but I entreat, that I may not when I am present be bold with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, who think of us as walking according to the flesh.

¹⁰ For his letters, says one, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

¹⁷ What I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

²² Are they Hebrews? So am I Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham's seed? So am I. ²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more abundantly, in deaths often; ²⁴ of the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one; ²⁵ thrice I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I have spent in the deep; ²⁶ by journeyings often, by perils of rivers, by perils of robbers, by perils from my countrymen, by perils from the heathen, by perils in the city, by perils in the wilderness, by perils in the sea, by perils among false brethren; ²⁷ by weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

¹⁰ For this cause I write these things being absent, that when present I may not use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord gave me for edification, and not for destruction.

³ For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. ⁴ Though I have confidence also in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I more; ⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; ⁶ as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.