2nd Corinthians Chapter 11 verse 29 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndCorinthians 11:29

Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?
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BBE 2ndCorinthians 11:29

Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?
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DARBY 2ndCorinthians 11:29

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?
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KJV 2ndCorinthians 11:29

Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
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WBT 2ndCorinthians 11:29


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WEB 2ndCorinthians 11:29

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?
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YLT 2ndCorinthians 11:29

Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 29. - Who is weak, and I am not weak? See, by way of example, 1 Corinthians 8:13; 1 Corinthians 9:22; Romans 14:21. Instead of stiffly maintaining my own prejudices, I am always ready to make concessions to weak brethren. Who is offended, and I burn not! That is, "who is ever caused to stumble without my burning with indignation?" In other words, "Is not the intensity of my sympathy whenever any scandal occurs an addition to the trials of my life?"

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(29) Who is weak and I am not weak . . .?--The words obviously spring from a recollection of all that was involved in that "rush" of which he had just spoken. Did any come to him with his tale of body-sickness or soul-sickness, he, in his infinite sympathy, felt as if he shared in it. He claimed no exemption from their infirmities, was reminded by every such tale of his own liability to them. The words that follow have a still stronger significance. The word "offended" (better, made to stumble--i.e., led to fall by a temptation which the man has not resisted) suggests the thought of some grievous sin, as distinct from weakness; and the dominant sense of the word, as in Matthew 5:29-30; Matthew 18:8-9; Mark 9:42-43; Mark 9:45; Mark 9:47; 1Corinthians 8:13, is that of the sins to which men are led by the temptations of the senses. The other word--to "burn"--is even more startling in its suggestiveness. It had been used in 1Corinthians 7:9 of the "burning" of sensual passion, and it is scarcely open to a doubt that the associations thus connected with it mingle with its meaning here. Men came to the Apostle with their tales of shame, and told how they had been tempted and had fallen; and here, too, he, in that illimitable sympathy of his, seemed to have travelled with them on the downward road. He felt himself suffused, as it were, with the burning glow of their shame. He blushed with them and for them, as though the sin had been his own. Simply as a word, it should be added, it is equally applicable to any emotion of intense pain or fiery indignation, and it has been so taken by many interpreters. The view which has been given above seems, however, most in harmony with the Apostle's character. . . .