2 Corinthians 11:12

But I do this, and also will do it, to cut off the occasion of them who seek an occasion, that in the thing in which they boast they may be found as we are.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 love you not? Aloha himself knoweth!

13For these are apostles of falsehood and workers of deceits, assimilating themselves to the apostles of the Meshiha.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 5:6MY brethren, your boasting is not seemly. Know you not that a little leaven the whole mass leaveneth?

2 Corinthians 1:17This then that I have purposed, have I purposed boastingly? or are they things of the flesh that I purpose, that I should have in them Yes, yes, or No, no?

2 Corinthians 10:17But let him who glorieth glory in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 11:18Because many boast in the flesh, I also will boast.

Galatians 6:13For neither do these who are circumcised keep the law; but they will that you be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

1 Timothy 5:14I will therefore that those who are young should marry, and bear children, and conduct their households,

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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