2 Corinthians 11:18
Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
In Context
17What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this same confidence of boasting.
19For it is a pleasure to you to bear with men of no understanding, since you yourselves are wise.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised.
2 Corinthians 11:12But what I am doing I will also continue to do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in what they boast, they may be found even as we.
2 Corinthians 12:5Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, unless in my infirmities.
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.
1 Peter 1:24For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass; the grass withers, and its flower fails away: but the word of the Lord abides forever: and this is the word which has been preached as gospel to you.
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 →