2 Corinthians 11:12
But what I do, I also will do, so that I may cut off the opportunity of those who desire an opportunity, that in what they boast, they might appear just as we also.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.
13For such men are FALSE apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
2 Corinthians 1:17Therefore intending this, did I accordingly employ anything in lightness? Or what I decide, do I decide according to flesh, so that it would be with me the yes, yes and the no, no?
2 Corinthians 10:17But he who boasts should boast in Lord.
2 Corinthians 11:18Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.
Galatians 6:13For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh.
1 Timothy 5:14I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 11:6-16
The Apostle Asserts His Claims. ( a. d. 57.) 5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things. 7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. 9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that… Read the whole commentary →