2 Corinthians 11:20

Easy To Read Version

\{I know you will be patient,\} because you are even patient with a person who forces you to do things and uses you! You are patient with people that trick you, or think they are better than you, or hit you in the face!

Cross References

Isaiah 50:6

I will let those people beat me. I will let them pull the hair from my beard. I will not hide my face when they say bad things to me and spit at me.

Lamentations 3:30

That person should turn his cheek\par to the one that hits him.\par That person should let people insult him.\par

Mark 12:40

They are mean to widows {\cf2\super [177]} and steal their homes. Then they try to make themselves look good by saying long prayers. God will punish them very much.”

Luke 6:29

If a person hits you on the side of your face, let him hit the other side too. If a person takes your coat, don’t stop him from taking your shirt too.

1 Corinthians 4:11

Even now we still don’t have \{enough\} to eat or drink, and we don’t have \{enough\} clothes. We often get beatings. We have no homes.

2 Corinthians 10:5

And we destroy every proud thing that raises itself against the knowledge of God. And we capture (catch) every thought and make it give up and obey Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that your minds will be led away from your true and pure following of Christ. This might happen the same as Eve was tricked (fooled) by the snake (the devil) with his evil ways.

2 Corinthians 12:16

It is clear that I was not a burden to you. But \{you think that\} I was tricky and used lies to catch you.

Galatians 4:25

So Hagar is like Mount Sinai in Arabia. She is a picture of the earthly \{Jewish\} city of Jerusalem. This city is a slave, and all its people (the Jews) are slaves \{to the law\}.

Galatians 4:3

It is the same for us. We were once like children. We were slaves to the useless rules of this world.

Galatians 4:9

But now you know the true God. Really, it is God who knows you. So why do you turn back to those weak and useless rules you followed before? Do you want to be slaves to those things again?

Galatians 5:1

We have freedom now. Christ made us free. So stand strong. Don’t change and go back into the slavery \{of law\}.

Galatians 5:10

I trust in the Lord that you will not believe those different ideas. Some person is confusing you with those ideas. That person will be punished, whoever he is.

Galatians 6:12

Some men are trying to force you to be circumcised. {\cf2\super [77]} They do these things so that other people (the Jews) will accept them. Those men are afraid they will be criticized if they follow only the cross of Christ. {\cf2\super [78]}

Philippians 3:19

The way these people live is leading them to destruction. They don’t serve God. Those people live only to please themselves. They do shameful things, and they are proud of those things. They think only about earthly things.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

You know that we never tried to influence you by saying nice things about you. We were not trying to get your money. We had no greed to hide from you. God knows that this is true.