Paul’s “Fool’s Boast” - 2 Corinthians 11 is the Apostle’s most deliberate irony: a catalog of beatings, shipwrecks, and imprisonment written to expose false teachers who mistake eloquence for apostolic authority.

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I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy For I promised you in marriage to one husband That I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ

But I am afraid that somehow as the serpent deceived Eve In his craftiness so your minds might be corrupted From the simplicity that is in Christ I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles

But though I am unskilled in speech Yet I am not unskilled in knowledge In every way we have been revealed to you in all things Out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears

I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord I know a man in Christ Who was caught up into the third heaven Fourteen years ago

For this cause I obtained mercy That in me first Jesus Christ might display all his patience For an example of those who were going to believe In him for eternal life

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations A thorn in the flesh was given to me A messenger of Satan to torment me That I should not be exalted excessively

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses In injuries in necessities in persecutions and in distresses For Christ’s sake For when I am weak then am I strong

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2 Corinthians 11 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.

Published 2026-05-22 · Last updated 2026-06-06
Written by Reid Wender, Editorial Director at Psalmody Press