2 Corinthians 11:12
But what I do, and will do, is that I may cut off the occasion of those who desire an occasion, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
11Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knows.
13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
2 Corinthians 1:17When therefore I purposed this, did I act with levity? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea, yea, and the nay, nay?
2 Corinthians 10:17But he that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 11:18Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I also will boast.
Galatians 6:13For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but they desire that ye should be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
1 Timothy 5:14I desire therefore that younger widows marry, bear children, guide the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
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 →