2 Corinthians 11:21 Cross References - Lamsa

²¹ I speak this as a reproach, as though we were weak. Now I speak foolishly; in whatsoever other men are bold, I venture also.

¹ NOW I, Paul, beseech you by the gentleness and meekness of Christ, even though I am humble when present among you, I have the assurance when I am far away, ² I beseech you, that when I arrive, not to be troubled by the things which I hope to carry out, for it is my purpose to put to scorn those men who regard us as if we lived after the flesh.

¹⁰ For there are men who say that his epistles are weighty and powerful; but his bodily appearance is weak, and his speech foolish.

¹⁷ What I now say, I speak not after our LORD, but as it were foolishly, on this occasion of boasting.

²² Now if they are Hebrews, so am I. If they are Israelites, so am I. If they are descendants of Abraham, so am I. ²³ If they are ministers of Christ, I speak as a fool, I am greater than they; in labor more than they, in wounds more than they, in imprisonments more frequent than they, and in danger of death many times. ²⁴ By the Jews I was scourged five times, each time forty stripes less one. ²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was in shipwreck, a day and a night I have been adrift in the sea in shipwreck. ²⁶ On many journeys, I have been in perils from rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own kinsmen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren; ²⁷ In toil and weariness, in sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, through much fasting, in cold and nakedness.

¹⁰ Therefore I write these things while I am far away, so that when I come, I need not deal harshly with you, according to the authority which my LORD has given me, which is for your edification and not for your destruction.

³ For we are the true people of circumcision, who worship God in Spirit, and glory in Jesus Christ, and yet do not rely on things of the flesh. ⁴ As for me, I once relied on things of the flesh. However, if a man thinks his hope is on things of the flesh, I have more hope than he has; ⁵ Because I was circumcised when I was eight days old, being an Israelite by race, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew son of Hebrews, and according to the law a Pharisee; ⁶ And because, concerning zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and according to the standards of righteousness of the law, I was blameless.