2 Corinthians 11:17 Cross References - Murdock

¹⁷ What I am now saying, I say not in our Lord, but as in folly, in this matter of glorying.

⁶ But this I say, as to weak persons, not of positive precept.

¹² And to the rest, say I,- I, not my Lord,-that if there be a brother, who hath a wife that believeth not, and she is disposed to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

²⁵ And concerning virginity, I have no precept from God; but I give counsels as a man who hath obtained mercy from God to be a believer.

⁴ so that, if the Macedonians should come with me, and should find you unprepared, we-not to say, ye-should be put to shame for that glorying in which we gloried.

¹⁸ Because many glory after the flesh, I also will glory. ¹⁹ For ye hear with indulgence them who lack reason, seeing ye are wise. ²⁰ And ye give ear to him, who putteth you in bondage; and to him, who devoureth you; and to him, who taketh from you; and to him, who exalteth himself over you; and to him, who smiteth you in the face. ²¹ I speak as if under contempt: I speak as if we were impotent, through deficiency of understanding; that in whatever thing any one is presuming, I also am presuming. ²² If they are Hebrews, so I also: or if they are Israelites, I also. If they are the seed of Abraham, I also. ²³ If they are ministers of the Messiah, (in defect of understanding, I say it,) I am superior to them: in toils more than they, in stripes more than they, in bonds more than they, in deaths many times. ²⁴ By the Jews, five times was I scourged, each time with forty stripes save one. ²⁵ Three times was I beaten with rods: at one time I was stoned: three times I was in shipwreck, by day and by night; I have been in the sea, without a ship. ²⁶ In journeyings many, in peril by rivers, in peril by robbers, in peril from my kindred, in peril from Gentiles: I have been in peril in cities; I have been in peril in the desert, in peril in the sea, in peril from false brethren. ²⁷ In toil and weariness, in much watching, in hunger and thirst, in much fasting, in cold and nakedness:

³ For we are the real circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and glory in Jesus the Messiah, and place no reliance on the flesh. ⁴ And yet I might place reliance on the flesh. For, if any one thinketh that his reliance should be on the flesh, I might do so more than he. ⁵ Circumcised when eight days old; of the stock of Israel; of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, descendant of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; ⁶ as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; and as to the righteousness of the law, I was without fault.