2 Corinthians 11:19
for pleasure-ly you-are-holding-selves-up/anew of{the[plural] imprudent} being prudent,
Garth's Hyper-literal Translation
In The King James Version
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
In Context
18Since many are-boasting according-to the flesh, also-I will-boast,
Cross References
1 Corinthians 8:1Moreover, about of{the idol-sacrifices}, we-have-beheld that all[we] are-having knowledge. The knowledge is-inflating; moreover, the love is-house-building.
Revelation 3:17that you-are-saying, 'I-am-being rich and I-have-been-rich and I-am-having need of{nothing},' and you-have_not_beheld that you are-being the hardship-ful and pitiful and destitute and blind and naked.
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 →