2 Corinthians 11:18
Seeing many boast themselves after the flesh, I will boast also.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
In Context
17What I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as it were in folly in this confidence of boasting.
19For ye bear with fools easily when you are wise yourselves.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:10We are counted fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are mighty; ye are honourable persons, but we despised.
2 Corinthians 11:12But what I do, I will do also, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion, that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.
2 Corinthians 12:5Of such a one will I boast; but in myself will I not boast, save in my infirmities.
2 Corinthians 12:11Have I become a fool in boasting? ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing have I been inferior to the very chief apostles, though I be nothing.
1 Peter 1:24“For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man, as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower of it falleth off:”
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 →