Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY
Watchtower
ONLINE LIBRARY
English
  • BIBLE
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • MEETINGS
  • 2 Corinthians 11
  • The Bible in Living English

No video available for this selection.

Sorry, there was an error loading the video.

2 Corinthians 11:1

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    g63 12/22 28

2 Corinthians 11:2

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 1259-1260

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1158

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1977, pp. 174-175

    9/1/1976, pp. 543-544

    3/15/1966, pp. 184-186

    11/15/1964, pp. 686-688

    5/1/1964, pp. 270-271

    1/15/1963, pp. 55-56

    12/1/1962, pp. 732-734

    4/15/1962, pp. 235-237

    11/1/1960, pp. 659-661

    9/15/1956, pp. 561-563

    4/15/1953, pp. 245-247

    2/1/1953, p. 95

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1259-1260; it-2 1158;

    w77 174-175; w76 543-544; ad 873; w66 185-186; li 64, 145; im 234; g65 8/22 3; w64 271, 687; w63 55; bf 419, 459; w62 236, 733; g62 8/22 28; w60 660; w56 562; sr55 222; w53 95, 246; w48 328; v-3 274; g30 12/24 221

2 Corinthians 11:3

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    “God’s Love,” p. 192

    The Watchtower,

    10/15/2002, p. 8

    8/1/1986, pp. 11-12

    9/1/1984, p. 31

    1/15/1983, p. 19

    12/1/1982, p. 6

    5/15/1979, pp. 24-25

    10/1/1974, p. 596

    3/1/1973, p. 160

    3/15/1972, pp. 178, 191

    11/15/1964, pp. 686-688

    6/1/1959, pp. 330-332

    9/15/1955, pp. 571-573

    10/15/1951, pp. 625-627

    8/15/1951, pp. 499-500

    “Look!” booklet, pp. 15-16

  • Publications Index

    lv 192; w02 10/15 8; w86 8/1 11-12;

    w84 9/1 31; w83 1/15 19; w82 12/1 6; w79 5/15 24; w74 596; w73 160; w72 178, 191; im 160; w64 687; w59 331; mn 15; w55 572; dh 61; w51 500, 626; tf 82

2 Corinthians 11:4

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    12/1/1982, p. 6

    3/15/1972, p. 191

  • Publications Index

    w82 12/1 6; w72 191

2 Corinthians 11:5

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    “All Scripture,” p. 216

    The Watchtower,

    11/15/1964, pp. 686-688

    5/1/1951, pp. 271-273

  • Publications Index

    si 216;

    w64 687; g63 12/22 28; g58 9/8 26; w51 272; w44 169

2 Corinthians 11:6

Footnotes

  • *

    11:6 Lit. even if uneducated in talk, but not in knowledge, but in everything having made manifest

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    ta 29; w44 223; w43 61; g43 5/12 30

2 Corinthians 11:7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    4/2019, p. 4

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1152

    Bearing Witness, pp. 148-150

    The Watchtower,

    1/15/1957, pp. 59-60

  • Publications Index

    bt 148-149; w19.04 4; it-1 1152;

    g63 12/22 28; w57 59

2 Corinthians 11:8

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1093

    The Watchtower,

    12/1/1989, pp. 25-26

    1/15/1957, pp. 59-60

  • Publications Index

    it-2 1093; w89 12/1 25;

    ad 1594; w57 59

2 Corinthians 11:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1152

    Bearing Witness, p. 151

    The Watchtower,

    6/15/1990, pp. 18-19

    12/1/1989, pp. 25-26

    5/1/1963, pp. 274-275

    1/15/1957, pp. 59-60

  • Publications Index

    bt 151; it-1 1152; w90 6/15 18-19; w89 12/1 25;

    w63 275; w57 59

2 Corinthians 11:10

Footnotes

  • *

    11:10 Lit. It is Christ’s truth in me that this boasting shall not be

2 Corinthians 11:13

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Awake!,

    2/8/1984, p. 25

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/1973, pp. 159-160

    3/15/1972, p. 191

    7/1/1961, pp. 397-399

    7/15/1960, pp. 419-420

    5/1/1953, pp. 262-263

  • Publications Index

    g84 2/8 25; w73 160; w72 191; g63 12/22 28; w61 398; w60 420; w53 263; w48 308; w36 189; w31 14

2 Corinthians 11:14

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/2004, pp. 4-5

    3/1/2002, p. 11

    8/1/1986, p. 11

    8/15/1979, p. 4

    5/15/1979, pp. 24-25

    2/15/1979, pp. 7-8

    8/1/1976, pp. 464-465

    6/1/1974, p. 327

    6/1/1963, pp. 343-344

    Awake!,

    10/8/1984, p. 8

    10/22/1982, p. 23

    10/22/1974, p. 8

  • Publications Index

    w04 2/15 4-5; w02 3/1 11; w86 8/1 11;

    g84 10/8 8; g82 10/22 23; w79 2/15 8; w79 5/15 24; w79 8/15 4; w76 464-465; w74 327; g74 10/22 8; im 160; w63 344; g62 12/22 7; pa 31; nh 257, 288; lg 63; w48 308; dr 12; tf 82; w31 14

2 Corinthians 11:15

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 869

    Awake!,

    10/8/1984, p. 8

    10/22/1982, p. 23

    The Watchtower,

    8/15/1979, p. 4

    4/15/1975, p. 254

    6/1/1974, p. 327

    3/15/1972, p. 191

    7/1/1961, pp. 397-399

    5/1/1953, pp. 262-263

    Unseen Spirits, p. 23

  • Publications Index

    it-2 869;

    g84 10/8 8; g82 10/22 23; w79 8/15 4; us 23; w75 254; w74 327; w72 191; g65 7/8 12; g64 11/22 6; w61 398; g56 11/8 26; w53 263; nh 288; rm 323; w48 308; w36 189; w31 14

2 Corinthians 11:16

Footnotes

  • *

    11:16 Lit. receive me even if as a silly man

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    g63 12/22 28

2 Corinthians 11:19

Footnotes

  • *

    11:19 Lit. being sensible

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    4/1/1975, pp. 201-202

  • Publications Index

    w75 201-202

2 Corinthians 11:20

Footnotes

  • *

    11:20 Lit. if one takes, if

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    4/1/1975, pp. 201-202

    8/1/1972, p. 475

  • Publications Index

    w75 201-202; w72 475

2 Corinthians 11:21

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 292

  • Publications Index

    it-2 292;

    ad 1092

2 Corinthians 11:22

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1067

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1067;

    ad 736

2 Corinthians 11:23

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    10/2021, p. 26

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 292

    The Watchtower,

    7/15/2000, pp. 26-27

    12/1/1982, pp. 12-14, 17-18, 21

    12/1/1975, pp. 721-722

    11/15/1971, pp. 691-692

    1/1/1963, pp. 21-22

  • Publications Index

    w21.10 26; it-2 292; w00 7/15 26-27;

    w82 12/1 12-14, 17-18, 21; w75 721-722; w71 692; ad 1092; w63 21; yb63 36; w43 25

2 Corinthians 11:24

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 271

    The Watchtower,

    7/15/2000, pp. 26-27

    12/1/1982, p. 14

  • Publications Index

    it-1 271; w00 7/15 26-27;

    w82 12/1 14; ad 203; g61 1/8 28

2 Corinthians 11:25

Footnotes

  • *

    11:25 Lit. with rods

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    7/15/2000, pp. 26-27

    6/15/1990, pp. 12, 16

    12/1/1982, pp. 15-16

    12/1/1975, pp. 721-722

    5/15/1961, pp. 293-295

  • Publications Index

    w00 7/15 26-27; w90 6/15 12, 16;

    w82 12/1 15-16; w75 721-722; w61 294; w43 25

2 Corinthians 11:26

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 645

    The Watchtower,

    7/15/2000, pp. 26-27

    9/1/1992, p. 12

    6/15/1990, pp. 11, 24-25

    12/1/1982, pp. 18-21

    12/1/1975, pp. 721-722

    5/15/1961, pp. 293-295

  • Publications Index

    it-2 645; w00 7/15 26-27; w92 9/1 12; w90 6/15 11, 24-25;

    w82 12/1 18-21; w75 721-722; ad 1315; w61 294

2 Corinthians 11:27

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    7/15/2000, pp. 26-27

    12/1/1982, pp. 21-22

    12/1/1975, pp. 721-722

    9/1/1971, p. 538

    5/15/1961, pp. 293-295

  • Publications Index

    w00 7/15 26-27;

    w82 12/1 21-22; w75 721-722; w71 538; w61 294

2 Corinthians 11:28

Footnotes

  • *

    11:28 Lit. outside, my day-by-day occupation

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 119

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/1980, p. 20

    2/15/1965, pp. 121-122

    6/1/1962, pp. 338-340

  • Publications Index

    it-1 119;

    w80 9/1 20; w65 122; w62 339

2 Corinthians 11:29

Footnotes

  • *

    11:29 Lit. I do not burn

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    4/15/1979, p. 27

    3/1/1974, p. 153

    2/15/1963, pp. 110-112

  • Publications Index

    w79 4/15 27; w74 153; w63 111

2 Corinthians 11:32

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 141, 162

    The Watchtower,

    11/1/1962, pp. 660-662

  • Publications Index

    it-1 141, 162;

    w62 661; w39 54

2 Corinthians 11:33

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 162, 262

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/1952, pp. 331-332

  • Publications Index

    it-1 162, 262;

    ad 195; w52 331; w39 54

Parallel Translations

Click a verse number to display parallel Bible verses.
  • The Bible in Living English
  • Read in Study Bible (nwtsty)
  • Read in New World Translation (nwt)
  • Read in Kingdom Interlinear (int)
  • Read in Reference Bible (Rbi8)
  • Read in American Standard Version (bi22)
  • Read in Rotherham (rh)
  • Read in King James Version (bi10)
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
The Bible in Living English
2 Corinthians 11:1-33

2 Corinthians

11 I wish you would put up with a little bit of silliness from me; yes, do put up with me. 2 For I am jealous over you, feeling God’s jealousy. For I betrothed you to one husband, to present you to Christ a pure virgin; 3 and I am afraid lest, as the snake befooled Eve by his trickery, your sentiments should be seduced away from Christ-directed single-mindedness and purity. 4 For if the one who comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you get a different spirit that you did not get, or a different gospel that you did not receive, you are quite right in putting up with him. 5 For I figure that I have in no respect fallen behind the superlative apostles. 6* And even if I am uneducated in talk I am not in knowledge, but in everything we have made it manifest by everything on all occasions among you.

7 Or did I commit a sin by lowering myself to have you upraised, in that I preached God’s gospel to you gratis? 8 I looted other churches, taking pay for service to you; 9 and when I was there with you and was in want I did not squeeze anybody, for the brothers came from Macedonia and supplemented my shortage; and in everything I kept myself from being a load on you, and will do so. 10* It is gospel truth what I am telling you, I am not going to have this boast blocked against me in the territories of Achaea. 11 Why? because I do not love you? God knows. 12 But what I am doing and will do is in order to cut away the foothold of those who desire a foothold to start from, in order that in the point they boast of they may be found to be the same as we are. 13 For men of that sort are false apostles, tricky workmen, reshaping themselves into apostles of Christ’s— 14 and no wonder, for Satan himself reshapes himself into an angel of light, 15 so it is no great thing if his agents too reshape themselves like agents of righteousness; their end will be suitable to their deeds.

16* I say again, do not any of you think I am silly. But if you do, at least give me a silly man’s hearing so that I too may do a little boasting. 17 What I am saying I am not saying along the Lord’s line but, so to speak, in silliness, in this insistence on boasting. 18 Since many are boasting along the line of flesh, so will I. 19* For you do like to put up with silly people, you being so sensible; 20* for you put up with it if one enslaves you, if one eats you out of house and home, if one takes things, if one holds his head high, if one strikes you in the face.

21 I am speaking in terms of disrespect as if the point were that we had been weak. But as to what anybody presumes on, I say in silliness, so do I presume. 22 They are Hebrews—so am I. They are Israelites—so am I. They are descendants of Abraham—so am I. 23 They are Christ’s messengers—I am out of my senses to say it, more so I, with an uncommon amount of hard work, an uncommon number of imprisonments, a record-breaking number of beatings, a great number of deaths. 24 At Jews’ hands I five times received forty stripes lacking one; 25* three times I was beaten with Roman rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked, I have spent a day and a night in the deep; 26 often on the move, in dangers by rivers, dangers by robbers, dangers from those of my blood, dangers from foreigners, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among pretended brothers, 27 in toil and drudgery, with many a sleepless night, with hunger and thirst, many times without anything to eat, with cold and nakedness. 28* Apart from the things outside me, there is what takes up my mind day after day, anxiety about all the churches. 29* Who is sick and I am not sick? who trips up and my face does not burn? 30 If I have to boast I will boast of things connected with my weakness. 31 The Lord Jesus Christ’s God and Father knows, he who is blessed forever, that I am not lying: 32 at Damascus King Harithath’s sheik had a force in the city of the Damascenes to arrest me, 33 and I was let down in a basket through the wall by a window and escaped his hands.

English Publications (1950-2024)
Log Out
Log In
  • English
  • Share
  • Preferences
  • Copyright © 2023 Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Settings
  • JW.ORG
  • Log In
Share