2 Corinthians 11:18
Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will boast also.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
In Context
17What I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as it were in folly, in this confidence of boasting.
19For ye bear with fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise;
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are in honor, but we are despised.
2 Corinthians 11:12But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off occasion from those who wish for an occasion, in order that in the matter of which they boast they may be found even as we.
2 Corinthians 12:5Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities.
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become a fool; it is ye that compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the very foremost apostles, though I am nothing.
1 Peter 1:24Because, “All flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass; the grass withered, and its flower fell off;
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 →