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2 Corinthians 11:20

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In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face.

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I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.

Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace.

They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”

If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them.

To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, because it is by faith you stand firm.

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery!

This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.

But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty.

Those who want to impress people by means of the flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.

You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed—God is our witness.




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