2 Corinthians 12:11 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹¹ I have been "playing the fool!" It is you who drove me to it. For it is you who ought to have been commending me! Although I am nobody, in no respect did I prove inferior to the most eminent Apostles.

¹⁰ And so with you--when you have done all that you have been told, still say 'We are but useless servants; we have done no more than we ought to have done.'"

⁴ When one says 'I follow Paul,' and another 'I follow Apollos,' are not you like other men? ⁵ What, I ask, is Apollos? or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the Faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you. ⁶ I planted, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth. ⁷ Therefore neither the man who plants, nor the man who waters, is of any account, but only God who causes the growth.

²² Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Kephas, or the world, or life, or death, or the present, or the future-all things are yours!

⁸ Last of all, he appeared even to me, who am, as it were, the abortion. ⁹ For I am the meanest of the Apostles, I who am unworthy of the name of 'Apostle,' because I persecuted the Church of God. ¹⁰ But it is through the love of God that I am what I am, and the love that he showed me has not been wasted. No, I have toiled harder than any of them, and yet it was not I, but the love of God working with me.

⁶ If we meet with trouble, it is for the sake of your consolation and salvation; and, if we find consolation, it is for the sake of the consolation that you will experience when you are called to endure the very sufferings that we ourselves are enduring;

¹ I could wish that you would tolerate a little folly in me! But indeed you do tolerate me.

⁵ I do not regard myself as in any way inferior to the most eminent Apostles!

¹⁶ I say again--Let no one think me a fool! Yet, if you do, at least welcome me as you would a fool, that I, too may indulge in a little boasting. ¹⁷ When I speak thus, I am not speaking as the Master would, but as a fool might, in boasting so confidently.

⁶ Yet if I choose to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I shall be speaking no more than the truth. But I refrain, lest any one should credit me with more than he can see in me or hear from me, and because of the marvelous character of the revelations.

¹² The marks of the true Apostle were exhibited among you in constant endurance, as well as by signs, by marvels, and by miracles.

⁶ Of those who are thought somewhat highly of--what they once were makes no difference to me; God does not recognize human distinctions--those, I say, who are thought highly of added nothing to my Message. ⁷ On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the Gentiles, just as Peter had been for the Jews. ⁸ For he who gave Peter power for his mission to the Jews gave me, also, power to go to the Gentiles. ⁹ Recognizing the charge entrusted to me, James, Peter, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the Church, openly acknowledged Barnabas and me as fellow-workers, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews. ¹⁰ Only we were to remember the poor--the very thing I was myself anxious to do. ¹¹ But, when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face; for he stood self-condemned. ¹² Before certain persons came from James, he had been in the habit of eating with the Gentile converts; but, when they came, he began to withdraw and hold aloof, for fear of offending those who still held to circumcision. ¹³ The rest of the Jewish converts were guilty of the same hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led away by it. ¹⁴ But, when I saw that they were not dealing straightforwardly with the Truth of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, who were born a Jew, adopt Gentile customs, instead of Jewish, why are you trying to compel the Gentile converts to adopt Jewish customs?"

⁸ Yes, to me, who am less than the least of all Christ's People, was this charge entrusted!--to tell the Gentiles the Good News of the boundless wealth to be found in the Christ,