2 Corinthians 11:29

Amplified Bible

Who is weak, and I do not feel [his] weakness? Who is made to sin, and I am not on fire [with sorrow and concern]?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

King James Version (1611)
Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?

King James Version
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

English Standard Version
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

New American Standard Bible
Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?

New Century Version
I feel weak every time someone is weak, and I feel upset every time someone is led into sin.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?

Legacy Standard Bible
Who is weak without my being weak? Who is made to stumble without my burning concern?

Berean Standard Bible
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?

Contemporary English Version
When others are weak, I am weak too. When others are tricked into sin, I get angry.

Complete Jewish Bible
Who is weak without my sharing his weakness? Who falls into sin without my burning inside?

Darby Translation
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?

Easy-to-Read Version
I feel weak every time another person is weak. I feel deeply upset every time another person is led into sin.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?

George Lamsa Translation
Who is sick that I do not feel the pain? Who stumbles that does not have my heartfelt sympathy?

Good News Translation
When someone is weak, then I feel weak too; when someone is led into sin, I am filled with distress.

Lexham English Bible
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to sin, and I do not burn with indignation?

Literal Translation
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn?

American Standard Version
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?

Bible in Basic English
Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?

Hebrew Names Version
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn?

International Standard Version
Who is weak without me being weak, too? Who is caused to stumble without me becoming indignant?1 Corinthians 8:13; 9:22;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Who is weak, and I am not weak ? Who is offended, and I burn not ?

Murdock Translation
Who becometh weak, and I become not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?

English Revised Version
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is made to stumble, and I burn not?

World English Bible
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn?

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not?

Weymouth's New Testament
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led astray into sin, and I am not aflame with indignation?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who is sijk, and Y am not sijk? who is sclaundrid, and Y am not brent?

Update Bible Version
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn [with distress]?

Webster's Bible Translation
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is made to fall into sin, and I burn not?

New English Translation
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?

New King James Version
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

New Living Translation
Who is weak without my feeling that weakness? Who is led astray, and I do not burn with anger?

New Life Bible
When someone is weak, I feel weak also. When someone is led into sin, I have a strong desire to help him.

New Revised Standard
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I am not indignant?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and, I, am not burning?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire?

Revised Standard Version
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Who is sicke and I am not sicke? Who is hurte in the fayth and my hert burneth not?

Young's Literal Translation
Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who is weake, and I be not weake? Who is offended, & I burne not?

Mace New Testament (1729)
who is afflicted, and I not suffer? who is offended, and I not inflam'd?

Simplified Cowboy Version
I feel the desperation when someone reaches the end of their rope. It kills me every time a cowboy rides back to a life of sin.

Contextual Overview

²²Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. ²³Are they [self-proclaimed] servants of Christ?—I am speaking as if I were out of my mind—I am more so [for I exceed them]; with far more labors, with far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, and often in danger of death. ²⁴Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. ²⁵Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent adrift on the sea; ²⁶many times on journeys, [exposed to] danger from rivers, danger from bandits, danger from my own countrymen, danger from the Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger on the sea, danger among those posing as believers; ²⁷in labor and hardship, often unable to sleep, in hunger and thirst, often [driven to] fasting [for lack of food], in cold and exposure [without adequate clothing]. ²⁸Besides those external things, there is the daily [inescapable] pressure of my concern for all the churches. ²⁹Who is weak, and I do not feel [his] weakness? Who is made to sin, and I am not on fire [with sorrow and concern]?³⁰If I must boast, I will boast of the things that reveal my weakness [the things by which I am made weak in the eyes of my opponents]. ³¹The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed and to be praised forevermore, knows that I am not lying.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

is weak: 2 Corinthians 2:4, 2 Corinthians 2:5, 2 Corinthians 7:5, 2 Corinthians 7:6, 2 Corinthians 13:9, Ezra 9:1-3, Romans 12:15, Romans 15:1, 1 Corinthians 8:13, 1 Corinthians 9:22, 1 Corinthians 12:26, Galatians 6:2, 1 Thessalonians 3:5-8

and I burn: 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, Numbers 25:6-11, Nehemiah 5:6-13, Nehemiah 13:15-20, Nehemiah 13:23-25, John 2:17, 1 Corinthians 5:1-5, 1 Corinthians 6:5-7, 1 Corinthians 6:15-18, 1 Corinthians 11:22, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:36, Galatians 1:7-10, Galatians 2:4-6, Galatians 2:14, Galatians 3:1-3, Galatians 4:8-20, Galatians 5:2-4, 2 John 1:10, 2 John 1:11, Jude 1:3, Jude 1:4, Revelation 2:2, Revelation 2:20, Revelation 3:15-18

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 1:12 - General Job 6:14 - To him Psalms 51:18 - Do 1 Corinthians 2:3 - General 1 Corinthians 4:10 - we are weak 1 Corinthians 10:33 - General 2 Corinthians 2:2 - General 2 Corinthians 11:3 - I fear Philippians 2:4 - General Philippians 3:18 - even 1 Thessalonians 3:1 - when

Cross-References

Genesis 17:15
Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai (my princess), but her name will be Sarah (Princess).

Genesis 20:12
"Besides, she actually is my [half] sister; she is the daughter of my father [Terah], but not of my mother; and she became my wife.

Genesis 22:20
Now after these things Abraham was told, "Milcah has borne children to your brother Nahor:

Genesis 24:15
Before Eliezer had finished speaking (praying), Rebekah came out with her [water] jar on her shoulder. Rebekah was the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who is weak, and I am not weak?.... What church is so? or what particular believer is so? for he had not only the care of all the churches, but of all believers upon him; whoever was weak in the faith he was concerned for them, to instruct, establish, and strengthen them; and suited his discourses, reasonings, and language, to their capacity, that they might understand him, and take in right notions of things: or whoever was of a weak and scrupulous conscience about things indifferent, and fearful of using them lest they should sin in so doing, he was cautious of offending them, or doing anything by which their consciences should be defiled, and their peace be broken: or whoever was afflicted, either in body or mind, he sympathized and bore a part with them: "who is offended, and I burn not?" whoever was stumbled and made to fall by anything he said or did, or by the words and actions of others, it gave him sensible pain, it made him very uneasy; he was as one in a flame, all on fire, full of grief and trouble till the cause of the offence was removed, and the person offended made easy and restored; the word here used answers to the Hebrew word עגם, used in

Job 30:25 where it is said, "was not my soul grieved for the poor?" which Mr. Broughton renders, "did not my soul burn for the poor?" Now by all this which the apostle did and suffered, by all actions and sufferings, care and sympathy, he fully appeared to be a true and faithful minister of Christ, and abundantly more than the false apostles, who could produce none of these things as testimonies in their favour.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who is weak ... - I sympathize with all. I feel where others feel, and their sorrows excite deep sympathetic emotions in my bosom. Like a tender and compassionate friend I am affected when I see others in circumstances of distress. The word “weak” here may refer to any lack of strength, any infirmity or feebleness arising either from body or mind. It may include all who were feeble by persecution or by disease; or it may refer to the weak in faith and doubtful about their duty (see 1 Corinthians 9:22), and to those who were burdened with mental sorrows. The idea is, that Paul had a deep sympathy in all who needed such sympathy from any cause. And the statement here shows the depth of feeling of this great apostle; and shows what should be the feeling of every pastor; see the note on Romans 12:15.

And I am not weak? - I share his feelings and sympathize with him. If he suffers, I suffer. Bloomfield supposes that Paul means that in the case of those who were weak in the faith he accommodated himself to their weakness and thus became all things to all people; see my note on 1 Corinthians 9:22. But it seems to me probable that he uses the phrase here in a more general sense, as denoting that he sympathized with those who were weak and feeble in all their circumstances.

Who is offended - (σκανδαλίζεται skandalizetai). Who is “scandalized.” The word means properly to cause to stumble and fall; hence, to be a stumbling-block to any one; to give or cause offence to anyone. The idea here seems to be, “who is liable to be led astray; who has temptations and trials that are likely to lead him to sin or to cause him to fall, and I do not burn with impatience to restore him, or with indignation against the tempter?” In all such cases Paul deeply sympathized with them, and was prompt to aid them.

And I burn not? - That is, with anger or with great agitation of mind at learning that anyone had fallen into sin. This may either mean that he would burn with indignation against those who had led them into sin, or be deeply excited in view of the disgrace which would be thus brought on the Christian cause. In either case it means that his mind would be in a glow of emotion; he would feel deeply; he could not look upon such things with indifference or without being deeply agitated. With all he sympathized; and the condition of all, whether in a state of feeble faith, or feeble body, or falling into sin, excited the deepest emotions in his mind. The truth here taught is, that Paul felt a deep sympathy for all others who bore the Christian name, and this sympathy for others greatly increased the cares and toils of the apostolic office which he sustained. But having given this exposition, candor compels me to acknowledge that the whole verse may mean, “Who is feeble in the faith in regard to certain observances and rites and customs 1 Corinthians 9:22, and I do not also evince the same? I do not rouse their prejudices, or wound their feelings, or alarm them. On the other hand, who is scandalized, or led into sin by the example of others in regard to such custom; who is led by the example of others into transgression, and I do not burn with indignation?” In either case, however, the general sense is, that he sympathized with all others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. Who is weak — What Church is there under persecution, with which I do not immediately sympathize? or who, from his weakness in the faith, and scrupulousness of conscience, is likely to be stumbled, or turned out of the way, to whom I do not condescend, and whose burden I do not bear?

Who is offended — Or likely to be turned out of the way, and I burn not with zeal to restore and confirm him? This seems to be the sense of these different questions.