2 Corinthians 11:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³Are they ministers of Christ?(I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

2 Corinthians 11:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 6:4-5
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, …
2 Corinthians 6:9
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
2 Corinthians 1:9-10
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: …
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
2 Corinthians 11:24-25
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. …

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Apostles Bigotry Decision Devotion Intolerance, Religious Martyrdom

Commentary

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

(vv. 22-33)

Here the apostle gives a large account of his own qualifications, labours, and sufferings (not out of pride or vain-glory, but to the honour of God, who had enabled him to do and suffer so much for the cause of Christ), and wherein he excelled the false apostles, who would lessen his character and usefulness among the Corinthians. Observe, I. He mentions the privileges of his birth (2 Cor. 11:22),…

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

(vv. 23)

23. I speak as a fool--rather, as Greek, “I speak as if beside myself”; stronger than “as a fool.” I am more--namely, in respect to the credentials and manifestations of my ministry, more faithful and self-denying; and richer in tokens of God’s recognition of my ministry. Old authorities read the order thus, “In prisons above measures, in stripes more abundantly” (English Version, less accurately,…