2 Corinthians 11:20

New American Bible - revised edition

For you put up with it if someone enslaves you, or devours you, or gets the better of you, or puts on airs, or slaps you in the face.

Cross References

Isaiah 50:6

I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who tore out my beard; My face I did not hide from insults and spitting.

Lamentations 3:30

To offer one’s cheek to be struck, to be filled with disgrace.

Mark 12:40

They devour the houses of widows and, as a pretext, recite lengthy prayers. They will receive a very severe condemnation.” The Poor Widow’s Contribution.

Luke 6:29

To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic.

1 Corinthians 4:11

To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clad and roughly treated, we wander about homeless

2 Corinthians 1:24

Not that we lord it over your faith; rather, we work together for your joy, for you stand firm in the faith.

2 Corinthians 10:5

and every pretension raising itself against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive in obedience to Christ,

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere [and pure] commitment to Christ.

2 Corinthians 12:16

But granted that I myself did not burden you, yet I was crafty and got the better of you by deceit.

Galatians 2:4

but because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, that they might enslave us—

Galatians 4:25

Hagar represents Sinai, a mountain in Arabia; it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children.

Galatians 4:3

In the same way we also, when we were not of age, were enslaved to the elemental powers of the world.

Galatians 4:9

but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and destitute elemental powers? Do you want to be slaves to them all over again?

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:10

I am confident of you in the Lord that you will not take a different view, and that the one who is troubling you will bear the condemnation, whoever he may be.

Galatians 6:12

It is those who want to make a good appearance in the flesh who are trying to compel you to have yourselves circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their “shame.” Their minds are occupied with earthly things.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

Nor, indeed, did we ever appear with flattering speech, as you know, or with a pretext for greed—God is witness—