2 Corinthians 11:20

¹⁸ Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

¹⁹ For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

For 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.

²¹ I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

²² Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
KJV: For 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.
WEB: For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
ASV: For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you [captive], if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.
DARBY: For ye bear if any one bring you into bondage, if any one devour [you], if any one get [your money], if any one exalt himself, if any one beat you on the face.
BLB: For you⁺ bear with [it] if anyone enslaves you⁺, if anyone devours [you], if anyone takes [from you], if anyone lifts himself up, if anyone strikes you⁺ in the face.

ÅB: Dere tåler det jo om noen gjør dere til slaver, om noen fortærer dere, om noen fanger dere, om noen opphøyer seg over dere, om noen slår dere i ansiktet!
OTB: For dere tåler det hvis noen gjør dere til slaver, fortærer dere, utnytter dere, opphøyer seg selv, eller slår dere i ansiktet.
B1930: I tåler det jo om nogen gjør eder til træler, om nogen opeter eder, om nogen fanger eder, om nogen ophøier sig over eder, om nogen slår eder i ansiktet!

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Original text and word study

Cross references

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:
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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.
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Galatians 4:3
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
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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?
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Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
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Luke 6:29
And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.
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Lamentations 3:30
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
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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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