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2 Corinthians 11:12

But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

In Context

11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

2 Corinthians 1:17When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” and also “No, no”?

2 Corinthians 10:17Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

2 Corinthians 11:18Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.

Galatians 6:13For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

1 Timothy 5:14So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

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 →

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