2 Corinthians 11:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ I wish you would put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, do put up with me!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ I WISH you would bear with me while I indulge in a little [so-called] foolishness. Do bear with me!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.

Common English Bible

¹ I hope that you will put up with me while I act like a fool. Well, in fact, you are putting up with me!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ I wish that you would endure a small amount of my foolishness, so as to bear with me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly: but do bear with me.

2 Corinthians 11:1 Cross References

2 Kings 5:3

She said to her mistress, “If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his skin disease.”

Numbers 11:29

But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!”

Matthew 17:17

Jesus answered, “You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”

Acts 18:14

Just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of crime or serious villainy, I would be justified in accepting the complaint of you Jews,

Acts 26:29

Paul replied, “Whether quickly or not, I pray to God that not only you but also all who are listening to me today might become such as I am—except for these chains.”

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of the proclamation, to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.

1 Corinthians 4:10

We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are sensible people in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.

1 Corinthians 4:8

Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Quite apart from us you have become kings! If only you had become kings, so that we might be kings with you!

2 Corinthians 11:19

For you gladly put up with fools, being wise yourselves!

2 Corinthians 11:21

To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that.

2 Corinthians 11:4

For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 5:13

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

Hebrews 5:2

He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness,

Joshua 7:7

Joshua said, “Ah, Lord God! Why have you brought this people across the Jordan at all, to hand us over to the Amorites so as to destroy us? Would that we had been content to settle beyond the Jordan!