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2 Corinthians 11 Bible study: If I must boast
The chapter that says "If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness" (11:30) ends with being "let down in a basket through a window by the wall" (11:33). And one Greek verb is behind every bear with in it.
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“If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.”
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A little foolishness
The chapter opens, "I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me." (11:1) (tap foolishness, bear with). Then: "For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ." (11:2), and "But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." (11:3). These notes quote those two verses here only, say nothing about them beyond their own words, and set no other verse beside them. Then: "For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough." (11:4). The WEB prints good news there in quotation marks. The chapter doesn't say who he who comes is, and these notes apply 11:4 to no teacher, church or movement today. "For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles." (11:5). "But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things." (11:6).
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Questions people ask about 2 Corinthians 11
- "For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach" (11:4). Who is he who comes?
- "For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles." (11:5). Who are the very best apostles?
- "I robbed other assemblies" (11:8). What does the chapter mean by robbed?
- "let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little." (11:16). Why does the chapter boast at all?
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The Greek word behind it
ἀφροσύνηaphrosynesay af-ros-OO-nay
Thayer: "foolishness, folly, senselessness". "I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness" (11:1): behind foolishness is this noun. It comes again in "but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting" (11:17) and "(I speak in foolishness)" (11:21). The New Testament has it four times (counted in RP2018), three of them in this chapter. Strong's gives it as formed "from G878", the word behind foolish in "let no one think me foolish" (11:16) and "For you bear with the foolish gladly" (11:19).
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2 Corinthians 11 Bible study questions
- 1"I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness" (11:1). What helps a group like this one bear with one another?
- 2"there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies" (11:28). Who do you know who carries care for others, and how could you pray for them this week?
- 3"Who is weak, and I am not weak?" (11:29). What does it look like to stand beside someone in a group like this one?
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