2 Corinthians 12:6
For if I should desire to boast, I should not be a fool; for I should say the truth; but I forbear, lest any one should think of me above what he seeth me to be, or what he heareth from me.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
5Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities.
Cross References
Romans 9:1I speak truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, that
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God's fellow-laborers; ye are God's field, ye are God's building.
2 Corinthians 5:13For whether we were beside ourselves, it was for God; or whether we are in our sound mind, it is for you.
2 Corinthians 11:16I say again, let no one suppose me a fool; if otherwise, yet even as a fool receive me, that I too may boast myself a little.
2 Corinthians 12:7And that I might not be too much lifted up by the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be too much lifted up.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 12:2-11
The Apostle's Rapture. ( a. d. 57.) 1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for… Read the whole commentary →