2 Corinthians 11
Lutheran reading notes
In 2 Corinthians chapter 11, the message of the gospel develops the theme of Paul’s defense of ministry and encouragement to believers. Lutheran interpretation frequently emphasizes the proclamation of Christ, the distinction between law and gospel, and the promise of justification through faith.
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Would to God ye could bear with me a little in {my} folly: and indeed bear with me. {indeed bear...: or, indeed ye do bear with me}
2 Corinthians 11:1 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
2
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present {you as} a chaste virgin to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:2 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:3 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or {if} ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with {him}. {with him: or, with me}
2 Corinthians 11:4 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:5 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But though {I be} rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
2 Corinthians 11:6 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
2 Corinthians 11:7 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I robbed other churches, taking wages {of them}, to do you service.
2 Corinthians 11:8 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all {things} I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and {so} will I keep {myself}.
2 Corinthians 11:9 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
10
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. {no man...: Gr. this boasting shall not be stopped in me}
2 Corinthians 11:10 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
2 Corinthians 11:11 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
12
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
2 Corinthians 11:12 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For such {are} false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:13 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:14 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore {it is} no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
2 Corinthians 11:15 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. {receive: or, suffer}
2 Corinthians 11:16 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That which I speak, I speak {it} not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
2 Corinthians 11:17 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
2 Corinthians 11:18 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye {yourselves} are wise.
2 Corinthians 11:19 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour {you}, if a man take {of you}, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
2 Corinthians 11:20 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
2 Corinthians 11:21 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Are they Hebrews? so {am} I. Are they Israelites? so {am} I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so {am} I.
2 Corinthians 11:22 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I {am} more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
2 Corinthians 11:23 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Of the Jews five times received I forty {stripes} save one.
2 Corinthians 11:24 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
25
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
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{In} journeyings often, {in} perils of waters, {in} perils of robbers, {in} perils by {mine own} countrymen, {in} perils by the heathen, {in} perils in the city, {in} perils in the wilderness, {in} perils in the sea, {in} perils among false brethren;
2 Corinthians 11:26 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 11:27 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
28
Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
2 Corinthians 11:28 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
2 Corinthians 11:29 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
30
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
2 Corinthians 11:30 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
31
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
2 Corinthians 11:31 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
32
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
2 Corinthians 11:32 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
33
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
2 Corinthians 11:33 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.