2 Corinthians 11:18
As so many are boasting of earthly things, I, too, will boast.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
In Context
19For all your cleverness, you tolerate fools willingly enough!
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:10We, for Christ’s sake, are fools, but you, by your union with Christ, are people of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised.
2 Corinthians 11:12What I am doing now I will continue to do in order to cut away the ground from under those who are wishing for some ground for attacking me, so that as regards the thing of which they boast they may appear in their true characters, just as we do.
2 Corinthians 12:5About such a man I will boast, but about myself I will not boast except as regards my weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 12:11I have been “playing the fool!” It is you who drove me to it. For it is you who ought to have been commending me! Although I am nobody, in no respect did I prove inferior to the most eminent apostles.
1 Peter 1:24For – ‘All earthly life is but as grass, and all its splendor as the flower of grass. The grass fades, its flower falls,
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 →