2 Corinthians 11:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

2 Corinthians 11:20 —

Old words in this verse

suffer: — often: allow, permit.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 2:4
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Galatians 4:3
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Galatians 4:9
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
2 Corinthians 1:24
Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-21)

Here we have a further excuse that the apostle makes for what he was about to say in his own vindication. 1. He would not have them think he was guilty of folly, in saying what he said to vindicate himself: Let no man think me a fool, 2 Cor. 11:16. Ordinarily, indeed, it is unbecoming a wise man to be much and often speaking in his own praise. Boasting of ourselves is usually not only a sign of a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. For--Ye may well “bear with” fools; for ye even “bear with” oppressors. Translate, “Ye bear with them.” a man--as the false apostles do. bring you into bondage--to himself. Translate “brings,” not “bring”; for the case is not merely a supposed case, but a case actually then occurring. Also “devours” (namely, by exactions, Mt 23:24; Psa 53:4), “takes,” “exalts,” “smites.” take of you--So the Gr…