2 Corinthians 11:17

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15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, ^awhose end will be according to their works.

Reluctant Boasting

16 I say again, let no one think me a fool. If otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little.

17 What I speak, ^aI speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

18 Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.

19 For you put up with fools gladly, ^asince you yourselves are wise!

20 For you put up with it ^aif one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face.

21 To our shame ^aI say that we were too weak for that! But ^bin whatever anyone is bold—I speak foolishly—I am bold also.

Suffering for Christ

22 Are they ^aHebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

23 Are they ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I am more: ^ain labors more abundant, ^bin stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, ^cin deaths often.

24 From the Jews five times I received ^aforty ^bstripes minus one.

25 Three times I was ^abeaten with rods; ^bonce I was stoned; three times I ^cwas shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep;

26 in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, ^ain perils of my own countrymen, ^bin perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

27 in weariness and toil, ^ain sleeplessness often, ^bin hunger and thirst, in ^cfastings often, in cold and nakedness—

28 besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: ^amy deep concern for all the churches.

29 ^aWho is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

30 If I must boast, ^aI will boast in the things which concern my¹ infirmity.

31 ^aThe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^bwho is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

32 ^aIn Damascus the governor, under Aretas the king, was guarding the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desiring to arrest me;

33 but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.

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American Standard Version
That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.

Amplified® Bible
What I say by way of this confident boasting, I say not with the Lord's authority [by inspiration] but, as it were, in pure witlessness.

Contemporary English Version
When I do all this bragging, I do it as a fool and not for the Lord.

Darby English Version
What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.

Good News Bible
Of course what I am saying now is not what the Lord would have me say; in this matter of boasting I am really talking like a fool.

International Standard Version
When I talk as a confident boaster, I am not talking with the Lord's authority but like a fool.

King James Version
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

New American Standard Bible
What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

New International Version
In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

New King James Version
What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
What I say, I do not say as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

Young's Literal Translation
That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;

New English Translation
What I am saying with this boastful confidence¹ I do not say the way the Lord would.² Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

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