2 Corinthians 11:21 Cross References - Godbey

²¹ I speak according to disparagement, as that we are weak; but in whatsoever any one is bold, (I speak it in folly,) I am bold also.

¹ But I Paul exhort you through the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who before your face am indeed humble among you, but being absent am bold towards you: ² but I pray, that being present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I consider myself bold towards certain ones who regard us as walking about according to the flesh.

¹⁰ Because they say, His letters are indeed weighty and powerful; but the presence of his body is weak, and his speech contemptible.

¹⁷ What I say, I am not saying according to the Lord, but as it were in folly, in this confidence of glorying.

²² Are they Hebrews? I am also. Are they Israelites? I am also. Are they the seed of Abraham? I am also. ²³ Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often; ²⁴ from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one, ²⁵ thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a day and a night I spent in the deep. ²⁶ Often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷ in labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.

¹⁰ Therefore being absent I write these things, in order that being present, I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.

³ For we are the circumcision, who serve the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, also having no confidence in the flesh: ⁴ even though also having confidence in the flesh. If any other one seems to have confidence in the flesh, I the more: ⁵ in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; ⁶ in reference to zeal, persecuting the church, according to righteousness which was in the law being blameless.