2C 11 Quote Cards

Question 1

2C 11:16

Answer 1

I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting.

Question 2

2C 11:12

Answer 2

And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.

Question 3

2C 11:1

Answer 3

I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, please put up with me!

Question 4

2C 11:18

Answer 4

Since many are boasting in the way the world does, I too will boast.

Question 5

2C 11:21

Answer 5

To my shame I admit that we were too weak for that! Whatever anyone else dares to boast about-I am speaking as a fool-I also dare to boast about.

Question 6

2C 11:26

Answer 6

I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers.

Question 7

2C 11:8

Answer 7

I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so as to serve you.

Question 8

2C 11:5

Answer 8

I do not think I am in the least inferior to those “super-apostles.”

Question 9

2C 11:14

Answer 9

And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

Question 10

2C 11:10

Answer 10

As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, nobody in the regions of Achaia will stop this boasting of mine.

Question 11

2C 11:23

Answer 11

Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again.

Question 12

2C 11:32

Answer 12

In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me.

Question 13

2C 11:19

Answer 13

You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise!

Question 14

2C 11:30

Answer 14

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

Question 15

2C 11:17

Answer 15

In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

Question 16

2C 11:13

Answer 16

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

Question 17

2C 11:2

Answer 17

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.

Question 18

2C 11:4

Answer 18

For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

Question 19

2C 11:31

Answer 19

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying.

Question 20

2C 11:6

Answer 20

I may indeed be untrained as a speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way.

Question 21

2C 11:27

Answer 21

I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.

Question 22

2C 11:33

Answer 22

But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.

Question 23

2C 11:28

Answer 23

Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.

Question 24

2C 11:7

Answer 24

Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge?

Question 25

2C 11:20

Answer 25

In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face.

Question 26

2C 11:25

Answer 26

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea,

Question 27

2C 11:3

Answer 27

But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

Question 28

2C 11:15

Answer 28

It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

Question 29

2C 11:9

Answer 29

And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

Question 30

2C 11:11

Answer 30

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Question 31

2C 11:22

Answer 31

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham’s descendants? So am I.

Question 32

2C 11:29

Answer 32

Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn?

Question 33

2C 11:24

Answer 33

Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.