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2 Corinthians Outline

      • Paul and the superfine apostles (1-15)

      • Paul’s hardships as an apostle (16-33)

2 Corinthians 11:1

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    g63 12/22 28

2 Corinthians 11:2

Footnotes

  • *

    Lit., “God’s zeal.”

  • *

    Or “pure.”

Marginal References

  • +Mr 2:19; Eph 5:23; Re 21:2, 9

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

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “purity.”

Marginal References

  • +Ge 3:4, 5; Joh 8:44
  • +1Ti 6:3-5; Heb 13:9; 2Pe 3:17

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

Marginal References

  • +Ga 1:7, 8

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

Marginal References

  • +2Co 11:23

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

Marginal References

  • +2Co 10:10

Indexes

  • Publications Index

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

2 Corinthians 11:7

Marginal References

  • +Ac 18:3; 1Co 9:18

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

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

    g63 12/22 28; w57 59

2 Corinthians 11:8

Footnotes

  • *

    Lit., “robbed.”

  • *

    Or “support.”

Marginal References

  • +Php 4:10

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

Marginal References

  • +Php 4:15, 16
  • +1Th 2:9

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

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

    w63 275; w57 59

2 Corinthians 11:10

Marginal References

  • +1Co 9:14, 15

2 Corinthians 11:12

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “pretext.”

  • *

    Or “the office.”

Marginal References

  • +1Co 9:11, 12

2 Corinthians 11:13

Marginal References

  • +Ro 16:17, 18; 2Pe 2:1

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

Marginal References

  • +Ga 1:8; 2Th 2:9

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

Marginal References

  • +Mt 16:27; Php 3:18, 19; 2Ti 4:14

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

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    g63 12/22 28

2 Corinthians 11:18

Footnotes

  • *

    That is, on human grounds.

2 Corinthians 11:19

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    4/1/1975, pp. 201-202

  • Publications Index

    w75 201-202

2 Corinthians 11:20

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

Footnotes

  • *

    Lit., “seed.”

Marginal References

  • +Ac 22:3
  • +Ro 11:1; Php 3:4, 5

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1067

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1067;

    ad 736

2 Corinthians 11:23

Marginal References

  • +Ro 11:13; 1Co 15:10
  • +Ac 16:23, 24
  • +Ac 9:15, 16; 2Co 6:4, 5; 1Pe 2:20, 21

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

Marginal References

  • +De 25:3

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

Marginal References

  • +Ac 16:22
  • +Ac 14:19
  • +Ac 27:41

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

Marginal References

  • +Ac 20:3; 23:10
  • +Ac 14:5, 6
  • +Ac 13:50

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

Footnotes

  • *

    Lit., “and in nakedness.”

Marginal References

  • +Ac 20:31
  • +1Co 4:11
  • +2Co 6:4, 5

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

  • *

    Or “the daily pressure on me.”

Marginal References

  • +2Co 2:4; Col 2:1

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

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

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “wicker basket.”

Marginal References

  • +Ac 9:24, 25

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

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General

2 Cor. 11:2Mr 2:19; Eph 5:23; Re 21:2, 9
2 Cor. 11:3Ge 3:4, 5; Joh 8:44
2 Cor. 11:31Ti 6:3-5; Heb 13:9; 2Pe 3:17
2 Cor. 11:4Ga 1:7, 8
2 Cor. 11:52Co 11:23
2 Cor. 11:62Co 10:10
2 Cor. 11:7Ac 18:3; 1Co 9:18
2 Cor. 11:8Php 4:10
2 Cor. 11:9Php 4:15, 16
2 Cor. 11:91Th 2:9
2 Cor. 11:101Co 9:14, 15
2 Cor. 11:121Co 9:11, 12
2 Cor. 11:13Ro 16:17, 18; 2Pe 2:1
2 Cor. 11:14Ga 1:8; 2Th 2:9
2 Cor. 11:15Mt 16:27; Php 3:18, 19; 2Ti 4:14
2 Cor. 11:22Ac 22:3
2 Cor. 11:22Ro 11:1; Php 3:4, 5
2 Cor. 11:23Ro 11:13; 1Co 15:10
2 Cor. 11:23Ac 16:23, 24
2 Cor. 11:23Ac 9:15, 16; 2Co 6:4, 5; 1Pe 2:20, 21
2 Cor. 11:24De 25:3
2 Cor. 11:25Ac 16:22
2 Cor. 11:25Ac 14:19
2 Cor. 11:25Ac 27:41
2 Cor. 11:26Ac 20:3; 23:10
2 Cor. 11:26Ac 14:5, 6
2 Cor. 11:26Ac 13:50
2 Cor. 11:27Ac 20:31
2 Cor. 11:271Co 4:11
2 Cor. 11:272Co 6:4, 5
2 Cor. 11:282Co 2:4; Col 2:1
2 Cor. 11:33Ac 9:24, 25
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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
2 Corinthians 11:1-33

The Second to the Corinthians

11 I wish you would put up with me in a little unreasonableness. But, in fact, you are putting up with me! 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy,* for I personally promised you in marriage to one husband that I might present you as a chaste* virgin to the Christ.+ 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent seduced Eve by its cunning,+ your minds might be corrupted away from the sincerity and the chastity* that are due the Christ.+ 4 For as it is, if someone comes and preaches a Jesus other than the one we preached, or you receive a spirit other than what you received, or good news other than what you accepted,+ you easily put up with him. 5 For I consider that I have not proved inferior to your superfine apostles in a single thing.+ 6 But even if I am unskilled in speech,+ I certainly am not in knowledge; indeed we made it clear to you in every way and in everything.

7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I gladly declared the good news of God to you without cost?+ 8 Other congregations I deprived* by accepting provisions* in order to minister to you.+ 9 Yet, when I was present with you and I fell into need, I did not become a burden on anyone, for the brothers who came from Mac·e·doʹni·a abundantly supplied my needs.+ Yes, in every way I kept myself from becoming a burden to you and will continue to do so.+ 10 As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, I will not stop this boasting+ in the regions of A·chaʹia. 11 For what reason? Because I do not love you? God knows I do.

12 But what I am doing I will continue to do,+ in order to eliminate the pretext of those who are wanting a basis* for being found equal to us in the things* about which they boast. 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.+ 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself keeps disguising himself as an angel of light.+ 15 It is therefore nothing extraordinary if his ministers also keep disguising themselves as ministers of righteousness. But their end will be according to their works.+

16 I say again: Let no one think I am unreasonable. But even if you do, then accept me as an unreasonable person, so that I too may boast a little. 17 What I now say is, not as following the Lord’s example, but as an unreasonable person would, with boastful self-confidence. 18 Since many are boasting according to the flesh,* I too will boast. 19 Since you are so “reasonable,” you gladly put up with the unreasonable ones. 20 In fact, you put up with whoever enslaves you, whoever devours your possessions, whoever grabs what you have, whoever exalts himself over you, and whoever strikes you in the face.

21 I say this to our dishonor, since it may seem that we have acted in weakness.

But if others act boldly—I am talking unreasonably—I too act boldly. 22 Are they Hebrews? I am one also.+ Are they Israelites? I am one also. Are they Abraham’s offspring?* I am also.+ 23 Are they ministers of Christ? I reply like a madman, I am more outstandingly one: I have done more work,+ been imprisoned more often,+ suffered countless beatings, and experienced many near-deaths.+ 24 Five times I received 40 strokes less one from the Jews,+ 25 three times I was beaten with rods,+ once I was stoned,+ three times I experienced shipwreck,+ a night and a day I have spent in the open sea; 26 in journeys often, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own people,+ in dangers from the nations,+ in dangers in the city,+ in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers, 27 in labor and toil, in sleepless nights often,+ in hunger and thirst,+ frequently without food,+ in cold and lacking clothing.*

28 Besides those things of an external kind, there is what rushes in on me from day to day:* the anxiety for all the congregations.+ 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I am not incensed?

30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, the One who is to be praised forever, knows I am not lying. 32 In Damascus the governor under A·reʹtas the king was guarding the city of the Dam·a·scenesʹ to seize me, 33 but I was lowered in a basket* through a window in the city wall,+ and I escaped his hands.

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