2 Corinthians 12:6
For though I should choose to boast, I would not be void of understanding: for I will speak the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should think of me more than what he sees me to be, or what he hears of me.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
5Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, unless in my infirmities.
Cross References
Romans 9:1I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are fellow-laborers for God: you are God’s field, you are God’s building.
2 Corinthians 5:13For if we be beside ourselves, it is for God; or, if we be of sound mind, it is for you.
2 Corinthians 11:16I 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.
2 Corinthians 12:7And, lest I should be too much exalted by the excellence of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I might not be too much exalted.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 12:2-11
The Apostle's Rapture. ( a. d. 57.) 1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for… Read the whole commentary →