2 Corinthians 12:11 Cross References - Wesley

¹¹ I am become a fool in boasting; but ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing have I fallen short of the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.

¹⁰ I think not. So likewise ye, when ye have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are but unprofitable servants: we have done what was our duty to do.

⁴ For while one saith, I am of Paul, ⁵ and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. ⁷ So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, nor he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

²² Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas; or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come,

⁸ Last of all he was seen by me also, as an untimely birth. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain, but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

⁶ And whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effectual in the patient enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer.

¹ I wish ye would bear a little with my folly; yea, bear with me.

⁵ But I suppose that I fall nothing short of the very chief apostles.

¹⁶ I say again, Let no man think me a fool; but if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I also may boast a little. ¹⁷ What I speak, I speak not after the Lord; but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

⁶ For if I should resolve to boast, I should not be a fool; for I speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any one should think of me above what he seeth me, or heareth from me.

¹² Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you, in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

⁶ And they who undoubtedly were something, (but whatsoever they were, it is no difference to me; God accepteth no man's person) they who undoubtedly were something in conference, added nothing to me. ⁷ But on the contrary, when they saw that I was intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter with that of the circumcision: ⁸ (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, wrought likewise effectually in me toward the Gentiles: ⁹ ) And when James, and Cephas, and John, who undoubtedly were pillars, knew the grace that was given to me, they gave the right-hands of fellowships to me and Barnabas, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision: Only they desired that we would be mindful of the poor, ¹⁰ the same which I also was forward to do. ¹¹ But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be condemned. ¹² For before certain men came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision. ¹³ And the other Jews also dissembled with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation. ¹⁴ But when I saw, that they walked not uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, If thou being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to judaize?

⁸ Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints is this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.