2 Corinthians 11:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹ I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear 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, “Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”

Numbers 11:29

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

Matthew 17:17

And Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

Acts 18:14

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, I should have reason to bear with you, O Jews;

Acts 26:29

And Paul said, “Whether short or long, I would to God that not only you but also all who hear me this day 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, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 4:10

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

1 Corinthians 4:8

Already you are filled! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!

2 Corinthians 11:19

For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves!

2 Corinthians 11:21

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

2 Corinthians 11:4

For if some one comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you submit to it readily enough.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these superlative 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 can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.

Joshua 7:7

And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, why hast thou brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!