2 Corinthians 11

Treated in 23 passages across the library.

  • 11:2 My jealousy for you is the jealousy of God himself. I have pledged you in marriage to one husband: I mean to bring you to Christ as a pure virgin bride. 6
  • 11:14 No surprise there: Satan himself passes himself off as an angel of light. 5
  • 11:3 Yet I fear that, in the way the serpent's cunning tricked Eve, your minds may somehow be spoiled and turned away from simple, pure loyalty to Christ. 3
  • 11:13 People like that are false apostles and dishonest workers, passing themselves off as apostles of Christ. 2
  • 11:28 And apart from all these other things, there is what presses on me day after day: my anxious care for all the churches. 2
  • 11:22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. 1
  • 11:23 Are they servants of Christ? I am talking as if I had lost my mind, but I am a better one: with far more labors, far more imprisonments, beatings past counting, and brushes with death again and again. 1
  • 11:25 Three times I was flogged with rods; once I was stoned; three times my ship was wrecked; a night and a day I have spent out on the deep. 1
  • 11:27 in labor and weariness, many nights without sleep, in hunger and thirst, many days going without food, in cold and with too little to wear. 1
  • 11:31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, the one who is blessed for all ages, knows that what I say is no lie. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of the way the saints hold communion with Christ as to personal grace cites 2 Cor. xi. 2

    …Christ, as he reveals his kindness in this engagement. Hence Paul tells the Corinthians, 2 Cor. xi. 2, that he had “espoused them unto one husband, that he might present them as a chaste…

  2. Communion with God · John Owen

    Other consequential affections cites 2 Cor. xi. 2

    …That this might be the state of the church of Corinth, the apostle made it his endeavour. 2 Cor. xi. 2, 3, “I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to…

  3. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Of love to God cites 2 Cor. xi. 2

    …have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ” (2 Cor. xi. 2). A wife espoused to one husband gives him such a love as she has for none else; she does…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.6 The Sixth Commandment cites 2 Cor 11: 2

    …‘I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.’ 2 Cor 11: 2. It is capable of being crowned with glory for ever. Oh! then, carrying such precious…

  5. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections and their importance in religion cites 2 Cor. 11:2

    …expectation, and his hope.” He likewise expresses an affection of godly jealousy, 2 Cor. 11:2, 3. And it appears by his whole history, after his conversion, in the Acts, and also by…

  6. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    The Cross of Christ cites 2 Cor. xi. 2

    …so hard for God as he did. He was “more abundant in labours” than any of the apostles. (2 Cor. xi. 2.3.) No man ever preached so much, travelled so much, and endured so many hardships for…

  7. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Worship cites 2 Cor. xi. 3

    …simplicity of Divine worship as if unworthy the majesty and excellency of God. (2 Cor. xi. 3.) But the Jews would not understand the glory of the second temple in the presence of the…

  8. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Divers and Strange Doctrines cites 2 Cor. xi. 3

    …his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” (2 Cor. xi. 3.) What says the Epistle to the Galatians? “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him…

  9. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Apostolic Fears cites 2 Cor. xi. 3

    …his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”—2 Cor. xi. 3. The text which heads this page, contains one part of the experience of a very famous…

  10. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Ninth Stage cites 2 Cor. 11:13

    …a false apostle, that hath transformed himself into an angel of light. Dan. 11:32; 2 Cor. 11:13,14. So he rent the net, and let the men out. Then said he to them, Follow me, that I may…

  11. The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    The Latent Power of the Soul cites 2 CORINTHIANS 11:13–14

    …of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 2 CORINTHIANS 11:13–14 Equally sound is his warning about the preacher who has learned to work upon a…

  12. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Prefatory Address to King Francis cites 2 Cor. 11:14

    …did not know it to be one of Satan’s wiles to transform himself “into an angel of light” (2 Cor. 11:14). The Egyptians, in whose neighbourhood Jeremiah was buried, anciently sacrificed and…

  13. Real Questions – Book 2 · Ochorus Originals

    Is the Devil Real? cites 2 Corinthians 11:14

    …And he’s a master of disguise: “Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14). Evil rarely looks evil at first. But don’t blame him for everything. James says, “each…

  14. The Key Teachings of Athanasius of Alexandria · Ochorus Originals

    Not Against Flesh and Blood cites 2 CORINTHIANS 11:14

    …and rose to pray. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 2 CORINTHIANS 11:14 We tend to assume that anything which sounds religious must come from God. Antony knew…

  15. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 12 — Of the Discipline of the Church, and Its Principal Use in Censures and Excommunication cites 2 Cor. 11:14

    …schism and purposes of excision. Thus Satan transforms himself into an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14) when, under pretext of a just severity, he persuades to savage cruelty, desiring nothing…

  16. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Pharisees and Sadducees cites 2 Cor. xi. 14

    …of Cain.—It is an awful fact that “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” (2 Cor. xi. 14.) Of all the delusions prevalent in these latter days, there is none greater than the…

  17. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    June cites 2 Corinthians 11:22

    …give an honest answer to a weighty question! June 6 “Are they Israelites? so am I.” (2 Corinthians 11:22) We have here a personal claim, and one that needs proof. The apostle knew that his claim…

  18. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Man's Chief End cites 2 Cor 11:23

    …as great variety of conditions as any man, ‘in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft,’ 2 Cor 11:23, yet he had learned to be content. Paul could sail either in a storm or a calm; he could…

  19. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Knowledge of God cites 2 Cor 11:25

    …of his eye is touched, and is he not sensible of it? Paul was scourged by cruel hands. 2 Cor 11:25. ‘Thrice was I beaten with rods;’ as if you should see a scullion whip the king’s son.…

  20. Portraits of Courage – Praying Hyde · Ochorus Originals

    A Heart on the Wrong Side cites 2 Corinthians 11:27

    …in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness” (2 Corinthians 11:27, ASV). He did not treat his body’s decline as failure: “though our outward man is…

  21. Portraits of Courage – Samuel Ajayi Crowther · Ochorus Originals

    The Gathering Storm cites 2 Corinthians 11:28

    …Paul had written of “that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches” (2 Corinthians 11:28, ASV). Crowther knew the feeling. It was impossible for one man, however faithful, to…

  22. Portraits of Courage – Samuel Ajayi Crowther · Ochorus Originals

    Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites 2 Corinthians 11:28

    …and his gentleness was both a virtue and a weakness. Scriptures to revisit Galatians 6:1; 2 Corinthians 11:28. Reflection 1. When does mercy become neglect? 2. Why is it important not to leave the…

  23. Freedom of the Will · Jonathan Edwards

    Section XI. The Evidence of Gods Certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of Moral Agents cites 2 Cor. xi. 31

    …of the affairs of the world, as supreme and universal ruler. (See Rom. i. 25. ix. 5. 2 Cor. xi. 31. 1 Tim. vi. 15.) ARG. IV. It will also follow from this notion, that as God is liable to…