Devine Scripture

2 Corinthians 11:20

2 Corinthians chapter 11 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.

Context

v.19For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.

v.20This passage

v.21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 50:6

    I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

  • Lamentations 3:30

    Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:5

    For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

  • Galatians 5:1

    For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

  • Galatians 4:25

    Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.

  • Galatians 4:9

    but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?