18 Since many are boasting according to human standards, I also will boast. 19 For because you[a] are wise, you put up with foolish people gladly! 20 For you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone devours you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone is presumptious toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 11:19 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as causal