2 Corinthians 11:16
I say again, let no one think me foolish; but if it can not be so, yet receive me even if as foolish, that I too may boast myself a little.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
17What I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 11:1WOULD that ye could bear with me in a little folly! Nay, ye do bear with me.
2 Corinthians 11:21I say it as a reproach, that we were weak. But in whatever any one is bold (I say it in foolishness), I also am bold.
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become foolish; ye compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind these overmuch apostles, though I am nothing.
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 →