2 Corinthians 11:16
Again I say, let no one think of me, as being a fool: or if otherwise, receive me as a fool, that I may glory a little.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
17What I am now saying, I say not in our Lord, but as in folly, in this matter of glorying.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 11:1I would that ye could bear with me a little, that I might talk foolishly: and indeed, bear ye with me.
2 Corinthians 11:21I speak as if under contempt: I speak as if we were impotent, through deficiency of understanding; that in whatever thing any one is presuming, I also am presuming.
2 Corinthians 12:11Behold, I have become foolish in my glorying, for ye compelled me. For ye ought to bear witness for me; because I was inferior in nothing to those legates who most excel, although I was nothing.
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 →