2 Corinthians 11:18
Since so many are making worldly boasts, I shall boast, too!
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
In Context
19Although you are wise, you put up with fools willingly enough!
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:10For Christ’s sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast.
2 Corinthians 11:12I am doing and will continue to do this in order to cut away the ground from under those who wish some cause for slander; and that the ground of their boasting may appear as does mine.
2 Corinthians 12:5Of such a one I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast except in my weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 12:11I am become a fool - you have forced me to; for you yourselves ought to have been my vindicators. In no respect am I inferior to these superapostolic apostles, even though I am nothing.
1 Peter 1:24For, All flesh is grass And all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass fades, The flower falls,
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 →