2 Corinthians 11:20
Good News Translation
You tolerate anyone who orders you around or takes advantage of you or traps you or looks down on you or slaps you in the face.

New Revised Standard Version
For you put up with it when someone makes slaves of you, or preys upon you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or gives you a slap in the face.

Contemporary English Version
In fact, you let people make slaves of you and cheat you and steal from you. Why, you even let them strut around and slap you in the face.

New American Bible
For you put up with it if someone enslaves you, or devours you, or gets the better of you, or puts on airs, or slaps you in the face.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face.

if a man bring.

2 Corinthians 1:24 0

Galatians 2:4 But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privately to spy our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude.

Galatians 4:3,9,25 So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world. . . .

Galatians 5:1,10 Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage. . . .

Galatians 6:12 For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the cross of Christ.

take.

Romans 16:17,18 Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who make dissensions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid them. . . .

Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.

1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness):

a man smite.

Isaiah 50:6 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

Lamentations 3:30 Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.

Luke 6:29 And to him that striketh thee on the one cheek, offer also the other. And him that taketh away from thee thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also.

Context
Paul's Suffering and Service
19For you gladly suffer the foolish: whereas yourselves are wise. 20For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face. 21I seek according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.…
Cross References
Mark 12:40
Who devour the houses of widows under the pretence of long prayer. These shall receive greater judgment.

1 Corinthians 4:11
Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode.

2 Corinthians 1:24


2 Corinthians 10:5
And every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God: and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience of Christ:

2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 Corinthians 12:16
But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught you by guile.

Galatians 2:4
But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privately to spy our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude.

Galatians 4:3
So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world.

Galatians 4:9
But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements which you desire to serve again?

Galatians 5:1
Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

2 Corinthians 11:19
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