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2 Corinthians 11:1 (Listen)

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Paul and the False Apostles

11 I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!

2 Corinthians 11:16-17 (Listen)

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Paul's Sufferings as an Apostle

16 I repeat, rlet no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 17 What I am saying swith this boastful confidence, tI say not as the Lord would1 but as a fool.

2 Corinthians 12:6 (Listen)

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6 though if I should wish to boast, eI would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.

2 Corinthians 12:11 (Listen)

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Concern for the Corinthian Church

11 pI have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was qnot at all inferior to these super-apostles, reven though I am nothing.