2 Corinthians 11:1
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
KJV
Ὄφελον ἀνείχεσθέ μου μικρόν τι ἀφροσύνης· ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀνέχεσθέ μου.
Greek NT
Utinam sustineretis modicum quid insipientiæ meæ, sed et supportare me :
Vulgate
Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.
ASV
Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly! But do bear with me.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μικρός
mikros
adjective · 42×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἀνέχομαι
anechomai
verb · 15×
ἀφροσύνη
aphrosune
noun · 4×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ὄφελον
ophelon
verb · 4×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: τι | WH/Treg/NIV: τι
- τι — SBLGNT
- τι — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἀφροσύνης | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀφροσύνης | RP: τῇ ἀφροσύνῃ
- ἀφροσύνης — SBLGNT
- ἀφροσύνης — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- τῇ ἀφροσύνῃ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 9.—Of the Perturbations of the Soul Which Appear as Right Affections in the Life of the Righteous. But so far as regards this question of mental perturbations, we have answered these philosophers in the ninth book687687 C. 4, 5. of this work, showing that it is rather a verbal than a real dispute, and that they seek contention rather than truth. Among ourselves, accordi…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:21 — For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
- 2Cor 5:13 — For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
- 2Cor 5:13 — For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
- 2Cor 11:4 — For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear
- 2Cor 11:16 — I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
- 2Cor 11:16 — I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
- 2Cor 11:19 — For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
- 2Cor 11:21 — I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
- 2Cor 12:11 — I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
- Gen 24:67 — And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.