I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. 1Co 1:212Co 11:42Co 11:192Co 11:212Co 5:132Co 11:16-171Co 3:181Co 4:10 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. Hos 2:19-20Eph 5:26-27Isa 54:5Col 1:28Jhn 3:29Lev 21:13-15Isa 62:4-5Rom 7:4 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. Col 2:8Gal 1:6Eph 4:141Jn 4:1Col 2:4Heb 13:91Ti 2:14Rev 12:9 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough. Gal 1:6-81Co 3:111Ti 2:5Eph 4:4-51Co 12:4-11Act 4:12Gal 3:2Rom 8:15 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles. 1Co 15:102Co 12:11-12Gal 2:6-9 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things. 1Co 1:17Eph 3:41Co 1:212Co 4:21Co 2:1-31Co 2:132Co 10:102Co 12:12
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge? 2Co 12:131Co 4:10-121Co 9:61Th 2:92Co 10:11Co 9:14-182Th 3:8Act 18:1-3 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you. 2Co 11:9Php 4:14-16Php 4:18 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so. 1Th 2:61Th 2:92Th 3:8-9Php 4:10-162Co 12:13-162Co 6:42Co 8:1-22Co 9:12 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. Rom 9:1Act 18:12Rom 1:92Co 1:231Co 16:151Co 9:15-181Th 1:7-81Th 2:10 Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows. 2Co 12:152Co 6:11-122Co 7:32Co 11:312Co 12:2-3Act 15:8Heb 4:13Jhn 2:24-25
But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us. 1Co 9:121Co 5:61Ti 5:142Co 1:172Co 10:172Co 11:182Co 11:92Co 5:12 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. Gal 1:7Rev 2:21Jn 4:1Php 3:2Gal 2:4Act 20:302Co 11:15Col 2:4 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. Gal 1:82Co 2:112Co 11:3Rev 12:9Mat 4:1-10Gen 3:1-5 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. Php 3:192Co 3:9Rev 9:112Co 11:232Pe 2:13-222Pe 2:3Act 13:10Isa 9:14-15
I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little. 2Co 11:12Co 12:62Co 11:192Co 11:21-232Co 12:11 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. 1Co 7:122Co 9:4Php 3:3-61Co 7:251Co 7:62Co 11:18-27 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast. 1Co 4:101Pe 1:242Co 10:12-182Co 11:122Co 11:21-232Co 12:112Co 12:5-62Co 12:9 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise. 1Co 4:101Co 10:151Co 8:1Rev 3:17 For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face. Gal 2:4Gal 4:3Gal 4:9Gal 5:12Co 1:24Isa 50:6Lam 3:30Luk 6:29 To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. 2Co 10:102Co 10:1-22Co 11:172Co 11:22-272Co 13:10Php 3:3-6 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring 1 of Abraham? So am I. Php 3:5Rom 11:1Rom 9:42Ch 20:7Act 22:3Exo 10:3Exo 7:16Exo 9:1 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often. 2Co 6:4-52Co 1:9-102Co 6:9Col 1:241Co 15:102Co 11:24-252Co 3:6Act 9:16 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews. Mrk 13:9Deu 25:2-3Mat 10:17 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. Act 14:19Act 16:22-23Act 16:33Act 16:37Act 27:1-44Heb 11:37Act 14:5Act 7:58-59 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; Act 14:5Act 13:50Act 17:5Act 20:19Act 25:32Co 1:8-101Co 15:321Th 2:15-16 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. 2Co 6:5Php 4:121Th 2:92Th 3:81Co 4:11-121Co 7:52Co 11:23Act 13:2-3
Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies. 1Co 7:17Rom 15:16Act 20:18-35Act 15:40-41Act 18:23Col 2:1Rom 11:13Rom 16:4 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation? 1Co 8:131Co 9:22Gal 4:8-201Co 11:221Co 12:261Co 15:12-341Co 15:361Co 5:1-5
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness. 2Co 12:5-111Co 2:3Jer 9:23-24Pro 25:272Co 11:16-182Co 12:1Pro 27:2Col 1:24 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie. Eph 1:3Rom 9:51Pe 1:32Co 1:3Col 1:3Jhn 10:30Rom 1:25Rom 15:6 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me. 2Co 11:26Act 9:24-25 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands. Act 9:251Sa 19:12Jos 2:18