2 Corinthians 11:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²³ Are they servants of Christ? I’m talking like a madman #– #I’m a better one: with far more labours, many more imprisonments, far worse beatings, many times near death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Are they [ministering] servants of Christ (the Messiah)? I am talking like one beside himself, [but] I am more, with far more extensive and abundant labors, with far more imprisonments, [beaten] with countless stripes, and frequently [at the point of] death.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

Common English Bible

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? I’m speaking like a crazy person. What I’ve done goes well beyond what they’ve done. I’ve worked much harder. I’ve been imprisoned much more often. I’ve been beaten more times than I can count. I’ve faced death many times.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as if I were less wise); more so am I: with many more labors, with numerous imprisonments, with wounds beyond measure, with frequent mortifications.

2 Corinthians 11:23 Cross References

Jeremiah 36:5

Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, ‘I am restricted;  I cannot enter the temple of the Lord,

Acts 14:19

Some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and when they won over the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.

Acts 20:23

except that in every town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.

Acts 21:11

He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, ‘This is what the Holy Spirit says: “In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him over to the Gentiles.” ’

Acts 25:14

Since they were staying there several days, Festus presented Paul’s case to the king, saying, ‘There’s a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix.

Acts 27:1

When it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Regiment.  ,

Acts 28:16

When we entered Rome,  Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

Acts 28:30

Paul stayed for two whole years in his own rented house. And he welcomed all who visited him,

Acts 9:16

I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.’

Romans 8:36

As it is written: Because of you we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.   ,

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.

1 Corinthians 4:1

A person should think of us in this way: as servants  of Christ and managers  of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 4:11

Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;

1 Corinthians 4:9

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.

2 Corinthians 10:7

Look at what is obvious.  If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ,  let him remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.

2 Corinthians 11:5

Now I consider myself in no way inferior to those ‘super-apostles’,

2 Corinthians 3:6

He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,  not of the letter,  but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who live are always being given over to death  for Jesus’s sake, so that Jesus’s life may also be displayed in our mortal flesh.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, yet recognised; as dying, yet see #– #we live; as being disciplined, yet not killed;

Galatians 6:17

From now on, let no one cause me trouble, because I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

Ephesians 3:1

For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner  of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles #– #

Ephesians 4:1

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord,  urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received,

Ephesians 6:20

For this I am an ambassador  in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough to speak about it as I should.

Philippians 1:13

so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is because I am in Christ.

Philippians 2:17

But even if I am poured out  as a drink offering  on the sacrificial service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings  for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body,  that is, the church.

Colossians 1:29

I labour for this, striving  with his strength that works powerfully in me.

1 Thessalonians 3:2

And we sent Timothy,  our brother and God’s co-worker  in the gospel of Christ,  to strengthen and encourage you concerning your faith,

1 Timothy 4:6

If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith  and the good teaching that you have followed.

2 Timothy 1:16

May the Lord grant mercy  to the household of Onesiphorus,  because he often refreshed me  and was not ashamed of my chains.

2 Timothy 1:8

So don’t be ashamed  of the testimony about our Lord,  or of me his prisoner.  Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power  of God.

2 Timothy 2:9

for which I suffer to the point of being bound like a criminal. But the word of God is not bound.

2 Timothy 3:11

along with the persecutions and sufferings  that came to me in Antioch,  Iconium,  and Lystra.  What persecutions I endured #– #and yet the Lord rescued me from them all.

Philemon 1:9

I appeal to you, instead, on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an elderly man  and now also as a prisoner  of Christ Jesus,

Hebrews 10:34

For you sympathised with the prisoners  and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, because you know that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.  ,