2 Corinthians 11:12
But what I do, that also I will do; that I may cut off occasion, from them who seek occasion: so that in the thing wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
11Why? Because I do not love you? God knoweth.
13For they are false legates, crafty workers, and feign themselves to be legates of the Messiah.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not praiseworthy. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?
2 Corinthians 1:17When therefore I thus purposed, did I purpose as one inconsiderate? Or, were the things I purposed, things of the flesh; so that there should be in them Yes, yes, and No, no?
2 Corinthians 10:17But let him that will glory, glory in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 11:18Because many glory after the flesh, I also will glory.
Galatians 6:13For not even they themselves, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to become circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
1 Timothy 5:14I would therefore, that the younger women marry, and bear children, and regulate their houses; and that they give no occasion to the adversary for reproach.
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 →