2 Corinthians 11:12
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them that desire occasion, that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
11Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.
13For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump ?
2 Corinthians 1:17Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or, the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there should be with me, It is, and It is not?
2 Corinthians 10:17But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 11:18Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.
Galatians 6:13For neither they themselves who are circumcised, keep the law; but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
1 Timothy 5:14I will therefore that the younger should marry, bear children, be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil.
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 →