2nd Corinthians Chapter 11 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndCorinthians 11:1

Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.
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BBE 2ndCorinthians 11:1

Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.
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DARBY 2ndCorinthians 11:1

Would that ye would bear with me [in] a little folly; but indeed bear with me.
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KJV 2ndCorinthians 11:1

Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
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WBT 2ndCorinthians 11:1


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WEB 2ndCorinthians 11:1

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
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YLT 2ndCorinthians 11:1

O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - Would to God; rather, would that! (comp. 1 Corinthians 4:8). You could bear; rather, ye would bear. In my folly; rather, in a little foolishness. Namely, in this foolishness of boasting. "Fool" and "folly" are here haunting words (2 Corinthians 1:16, 17, 19, 21; 2 Corinthians 12:6, 11). The article (the i.e. my folly) is omitted in א, B, D, E. Bear with me. It is better to take this as an indicative. It would be meaningless to pass from an entreaty to a command. On the other hand, "Nay, ye do really bear with me" was a loving and delicate admission of inch kindness as he had received from them.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersXI.(1) Would to God.--As the words "to God" are not in the Greek, it would be better to treat them as the general expression of a wish: Would that ye could bear.Ye could bear with me a little in my folly.--There are two catch-words, as it were, which characterise the section of the Epistle on which we are now entering: one is of "bearing with," or "tolerating," which occurs five times (2Corinthians 11:1; 2Corinthians 11:4; 2Corinthians 11:19-20), and "folly," which, with its kindred "fool," is repeated not less than eight times (2Corinthians 11:1; 2Corinthians 11:16-17; 2Corinthians 11:19; 2Corinthians 11:21; 2Corinthians 12:6; 2Corinthians 12:11). It is impossible to resist the inference that here also we have the echo of something which Titus had reported to him as said by his opponents at Corinth. Their words, we must believe, had taken some such form as this: "We really can bear with him no longer; his folly is becoming altogether intolerable." . . .