2 Corinthians 11:16
I say again, let no one think that I am without understanding; but if so, even as one without understanding bear with me, that I also may boast a little.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
17What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this same confidence of boasting.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 11:1I wish you could bear with me a little in my folly; but yet bear with me:
2 Corinthians 11:21I speak of their reproaches, as if we were weak. In whatever matter any one is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I also am bold.
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become of no understanding; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: I am in no respect inferior to the very greatest of the apostles, although I am nothing.
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 →