2 Corinthians 11:19

“For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.”

"For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise." - 2 Corinthians 11:19
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What does 2 Corinthians 11:19 mean?

"2 Corinthians 11:19 (KJV) - For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise." This verse from the New Testament, specifically from the second letter of Paul to the Corinthians, contains a powerful message about wisdom, humility, and the role of suffering in the…

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Embracing Wisdom Amidst Foolishness

In the rich tapestry of Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, one can delve deeply into the wisdom imparted through humble yet profound words. 2 Corinthians 11:19 states, "For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise." This verse reveals a paradox—while the…

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A Prayer for Discernment and Wisdom

O Heavenly Father, As I come before You in humble adoration, I am reminded of the words in 2 Corinthians 11:19: "For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise." Lord, I recognize the duality of wisdom and foolishness that often permeates my daily walk. I pray for…

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2 Corinthians 11:19 - "For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise."
2 Corinthians 11:11 - "Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth."
1 Corinthians 11:19 - "For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you."
2 Corinthians 6:11 - "O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged."
2 Corinthians 2:11 - "Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices."
2 Corinthians 11:14 - "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light."
2 Corinthians 11:5 - "For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles."
2 Corinthians 11:13 - "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ."
2 Corinthians 11:29 - "Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?"
2 Corinthians 3:11 - "For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious."
2 Corinthians 11:24 - "Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one."
2 Corinthians 11:27 - "In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness."
2 Corinthians 11:33 - "And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands."
2 Corinthians 11:8 - "I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service."
2 Corinthians 11:10 - "As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia."
2 Corinthians 11:17 - "That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting."
"Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth." - 2 Corinthians 11:11
2 Corinthians 11:30 - "If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities."
2 Corinthians 11:32 - "In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:"
2 Corinthians 11:1 - "Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me."
2 Corinthians 11:31 - "The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not."
2 Corinthians 11:28 - "Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches."
2 Corinthians 9:11 - "Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God."
2 Corinthians 8:11 - "Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have."
2 Chronicles 11:19 - "Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham."
2 Corinthians 11:22 - "Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I."
2 Corinthians 5:19 - "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation."
2 Corinthians 1:19 - "For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea."
2 Corinthians 11:15 - "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."