These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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2 Corinthians 11
Brit Hadashah 33 verses
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I wish you could have borne with a little foolish boasting on my part. Nay, do bear with me.
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I am jealous over you with Elohim’s own jealousy. For I have betrothed you to to present you to Him like a faithful bride to her one husband.
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But I am afraid that, as the serpent in his craftiness deceived , so your minds may be led astray from their single-heartedness and their fidelity to .
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1 Timothy 2:14 Revelation 12:9 Galatians 1:6 Colossians 2:8 John 8:44 Colossians 2:4 Genesis 3:13 Genesis 3:4 Galatians 3:1 Hebrews 13:9 2 Corinthians 1:12 Philippians 3:18-19 2 Corinthians 12:20-21 2 Thessalonians 2:3-11 2 Peter 3:3 1 Thessalonians 3:5 2 Timothy 3:1-9 Romans 16:18-19 Romans 12:8 Acts 20:30-31 2 Corinthians 11:29 Jude 1:4 Colossians 2:18 2 Corinthians 4:2 2 Timothy 4:3-4 Matthew 24:24 Galatians 4:11 1 John 2:18 Ephesians 6:24 2 Peter 3:17 Revelation 20:2 2 Corinthians 2:17 2 Peter 2:1-14 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 2 Timothy 3:13 Galatians 2:4 Ephesians 4:14 1 Timothy 1:3 1 John 4:1 Titus 1:10 Psalm 119:53 1 Timothy 4:1-4 - 4 If indeed some visitor is proclaiming among you another whom we did not proclaim, or if you are receiving a different from the One you have already received or a Good News different from that which you have already welcomed, your toleration is admirable!
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Why, I reckon myself in no respect inferior to those superlatively great Apostles.
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- 6 And if in the matter of speech I am no orator, yet in knowledge I am not deficient. Nay, we have in every way made that fully evident to you.
- 7 Is it a sin that I abased myself in order for you to be exalted, in that I proclaimed Elohim’s Good News to you without fee or reward?
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Other Churches I robbed, receiving pay from them in order to do you service.
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- 9 And when I was with you and my resources failed, there was no one to whom I became a burden—for the brethren when they came from Macedonia fully supplied my wants—and I kept myself from being in the least a burden to you, and will do so still.
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knows that it is true when I say that I will not be stopped from boasting of this anywhere in Greece.
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Romans 9:1 Romans 1:9 Acts 18:12 2 Corinthians 1:23 1 Thessalonians 1:7-8 2 Corinthians 11:16-17 2 Corinthians 11:31 Acts 18:27 Galatians 1:20 1 Thessalonians 2:10 2 Corinthians 12:19 2 Corinthians 11:12 2 Corinthians 1:1 2 Corinthians 10:15 2 Corinthians 9:2 Romans 16:5 1 Corinthians 9:15-18 1 Thessalonians 2:5 1 Timothy 2:7 1 Corinthians 16:15 - 11 And why? Because I do not you? knows that I do.
- 12 But I will persist in the same line of conduct in order to cut the ground from under the feet of those who desire an opportunity of getting themselves recognized as being on a level with us in the matters about which they boast.
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For men of this stamp are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, assuming the garb of Apostles of .
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Revelation 2:2 Galatians 2:4 Philippians 3:2 Galatians 1:7 1 John 4:1 2 Corinthians 11:15 Galatians 6:12 Acts 20:30 Revelation 2:20 Acts 15:24 Colossians 2:4 2 Peter 2:1-3 Ephesians 4:14 Galatians 4:17 Colossians 2:8 Philippians 1:15-16 1 John 2:18 2 Corinthians 2:17 1 Timothy 6:3-5 Titus 1:10-11 2 Timothy 4:3-4 2 John 1:7-11 1 Timothy 1:4-7 2 Corinthians 4:2 Revelation 2:9 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Jude 1:4 2 Timothy 2:17-19 Revelation 19:20 Romans 16:18 Acts 15:1 2 Timothy 3:5-9 Matthew 25:24 -
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And no wonder. , their master, can disguise himself as an of light.
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It is therefore no great thing for his servants also to disguise themselves as servants of . Their end will be in accordance with their actions.
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Philippians 3:19 2 Corinthians 3:9 Jeremiah 23:14-15 Jude 1:4 Jude 1:10-13 Revelation 13:2 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 Ephesians 6:12 Jeremiah 29:32 Isaiah 9:14-15 Galatians 1:8-9 Ezekiel 13:10-15 Revelation 13:14 Jeremiah 28:15-17 Revelation 20:2-3 2 Kings 5:13 2 Peter 2:13-22 Ezekiel 13:22 1 Corinthians 9:11 Matthew 7:15-16 2 Corinthians 11:13 2 Peter 2:3 2 Corinthians 11:23 Revelation 20:7-10 Jeremiah 5:31 Revelation 9:11 Revelation 19:19-21 Acts 13:10 -
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To return to what I was saying. Let no one suppose that I am foolish. Or if you must, at any rate make allowance for me as being foolish, in order that I, as well as they, may boast a little.
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- 17 What I am now saying, I do not say by the Lord’s command, but as a fool in his folly might, in this reckless boasting.
- 18 Since many boast for merely human reasons, I too will boast.
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Wise as you yourselves are, you find pleasure in tolerating fools.
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- 20 For you tolerate it, if any one enslaves you, lives at your expense, makes off with your property, gives himself airs, or strikes you on the face.
- 21 I use the language of self-disparagement, as though I were admitting our own feebleness. Yet for whatever reason any one is ‘courageous’—I speak in mere folly—I also am courageous.
- 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of ? So am I.
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Are they servants of ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind.)
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1 Corinthians 15:10 2 Corinthians 6:4-5 Acts 9:16 2 Corinthians 3:6 2 Corinthians 1:9-10 1 Corinthians 15:30-32 2 Corinthians 6:9 1 Corinthians 3:5 2 Corinthians 11:24-25 Acts 16:23-24 2 Timothy 1:16 Ephesians 4:1 2 Corinthians 12:11-12 Colossians 1:24 2 Corinthians 10:7 Hebrews 10:34 1 Timothy 4:6 Ephesians 6:20 Ephesians 3:1 Acts 14:19 2 Timothy 1:8 2 Timothy 2:9 Philippians 1:13 Philemon 1:9 Philippians 2:17 Romans 8:36 Acts 20:23 Acts 27:1 Acts 25:14 Acts 28:30 2 Corinthians 11:5 Acts 24:26-27 Colossians 1:29 2 Corinthians 4:11 Acts 21:11 1 Thessalonians 3:2 Acts 28:16 1 Corinthians 4:1 -
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From the Jews I five times have received forty lashes all but one.
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Three times I have been beaten with Roman rods, once I have been stoned, three times I have been shipwrecked, once for full four and twenty hours I was floating on the open sea.
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I have served Him by frequent travelling, amid dangers in crossing rivers, dangers from robbers; dangers from my own countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles; dangers in the city, dangers in the Desert, dangers by sea, dangers from spies in our midst;
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Acts 14:5 Acts 20:19 Acts 17:5 Acts 25:3 Acts 13:50 Acts 14:19 2 Corinthians 11:32 Acts 11:25-26 Acts 15:40 Acts 15:2-4 Acts 18:18-23 Acts 9:23-30 Acts 21:27-31 Acts 13:1-14 Galatians 2:4 1 Corinthians 15:32 Galatians 1:17-21 Romans 15:19 Acts 19:23 Acts 18:12 Acts 28:10-11 Acts 23:10 Romans 15:24-28 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 Acts 19:1 Acts 23:12-22 - 27 with labour and toil, with many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold, and with insufficient clothing.
- 28 And besides other things, which I pass over, there is that which presses on me daily—my anxiety for all the Churches.
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Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led astray into sin, and I am not aflame with indignation?
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1 Corinthians 9:22 1 Corinthians 8:13 Galatians 1:7-10 Romans 15:1 Revelation 2:2 2 Corinthians 13:9 Nehemiah 5:6-13 Galatians 6:2 2 Corinthians 2:4-5 Nehemiah 13:15-20 Ezra 9:1-3 1 Corinthians 15:36 Galatians 2:4-6 Jude 1:3-4 John 2:17 1 Corinthians 6:5-7 Numbers 25:6-11 1 Corinthians 6:15-18 1 Corinthians 12:26 1 Corinthians 5:1-5 2 Corinthians 7:5-6 Revelation 2:20 Galatians 2:14 Nehemiah 13:23-25 2 John 1:10-11 Romans 12:15 1 Corinthians 15:12-34 1 Corinthians 11:22 Galatians 3:1-3 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 Revelation 3:15-18 Galatians 4:8-20 1 Thessalonians 3:5-8 Galatians 5:2-4 - 30 If boast I must, it shall be of things which display my weakness.
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The and Father of our Lord the —He who is blessed throughout the Ages—knows that I am speaking the .
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In the governor under King Aretas kept guards at the gates of the city in order to apprehend me,
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but through an opening in the wall I was let down in a basket, and so escaped his hands.
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