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2 Corinthians 11:20

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For you permit it if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes from you, if a man exalts himself, or if a man strikes you on the face.

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I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who plucked out my beard; I did not cover my face from shame and spitting.

Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults.

who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive greater condemnation.”

To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer also the other. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic as well.

Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless.

Not that we have dominion over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, for by faith you stand.

casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

But I fear that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve through his trickery, so your minds might be led astray from the simplicity that is in Christ.

But be that as it may. I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with deceit.

This happened because false brothers were secretly brought in, who sneaked in to spy out our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.

Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and represents the present Jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children.

So when we were children, we were in bondage to the elements of the world.

But now, after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and worthless elemental forces to which you desire again to be in bondage?

Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has set us free, and be not entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

I have confidence in you through the Lord that you will not think otherwise. But he who is troubling you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.

It is those who desire to make a good showing in the flesh that try to compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Their destination is destruction, their god is their appetite, their glory is in their shame, their minds are set on earthly things.

For neither at any time did we come with flattering words, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed. God is our witness.




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