2 Corinthians 11:19

For it is a pleasure to you to bear with men of no understanding, since you yourselves are wise.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

In Context

18Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.

20For you bear it, if one enslave you, if one devour you, if one take from you, if one exalt himself, if one smite you on the face,

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 8:1Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies.

Revelation 3:17Because you say I am rich, and abound in wealth, and have need of nothing, and know not that you are miserable and pitiable and poor and blind and naked,

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 →

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