For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
Parallel translations
- KJV For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
- BSB For you gladly tolerate fools, since you are so wise.
- NKJV For you put up with fools gladly, since you yourselves are wise!
- NASB For you, being so wise, tolerate the foolish gladly.
- NLT After all, you think you are so wise, but you enjoy putting up with fools!
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- 1 Cor 4:10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
- 1 Cor 10:15I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
- 1 Cor 8:1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
- Rev 3:17Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
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