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2 Corinthians 12:6

Yet if I willed to boast, I should not be a fool, for I say the truth; but I spare, lest any one think of me beyond that which he seeth me (to be), and what he heareth of me.

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

In The King James Version

For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

In Context

5Of this I boast; but of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities.

7And that I might not be exalted by the abundance of revelations, there was delivered to me a stimulus of my flesh, an angel of Satana to buffet me, that I might not be exalted.

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Cross References

Romans 9:1I say the truth in Meshiha, and lie not; my conscience witnesseth for me in the Spirit of Holiness,

1 Corinthians 3:9For with Aloha we work; and the work of Aloha and the edifice of Aloha are you.

2 Corinthians 5:13For if we be beside ourselves, (it is) unto Aloha; and if we be right, (it is) unto you.

2 Corinthians 11:16BUT I say again, Let no man think of me as a fool; or if otherwise, let him receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little.

2 Corinthians 12:7And that I might not be exalted by the abundance of revelations, there was delivered to me a stimulus of my flesh, an angel of Satana to buffet me, that I might not be exalted.

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 →

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