2 Corinthians 11:16

I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

15It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

17That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:1I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

2 Corinthians 11:21To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

2 Corinthians 12:11I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best 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 →

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