2 Corinthians 11:18
Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
In Context
17What I speak, I speak not according to Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of the boast.
19For being wise, ye gladly tolerate the foolish.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:10We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable.
2 Corinthians 11:12But 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.
2 Corinthians 12:5For such a man I will boast, but for myself I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.
1 Peter 1:24Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away,
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 11:17-22
The Apostle Asserts His Claims. ( a. d. 57.) 16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if… Read the whole commentary →