2 Corinthians 11:18
Since so many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
In Context
17What I am saying is not said according to God, but as if in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.
19For you freely accept the foolish, though you yourselves claim to be wise.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:10So we are fools because of Christ, but you are discerning in Christ? We are weak, but you are strong? You are noble, but we are ignoble?
2 Corinthians 11:12But what I am doing, I will continue to do, so that I may take away an opportunity from those who desire an opportunity by which they may glory, so as to be considered to be like us.
2 Corinthians 12:5On behalf of someone like this, I will glory. But on behalf of myself, I will not glory about anything, except my infirmities.
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become foolish; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you. For I have been nothing less than those who claim to be above the measure of Apostles, even though I am nothing.
1 Peter 1:24For all flesh is like the grass and all its glory is like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and its flower 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 →