2 Corinthians 11:18
Because many glory after the flesh, I also will glory.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
In Context
17What I am now saying, I say not in our Lord, but as in folly, in this matter of glorying.
19For ye hear with indulgence them who lack reason, seeing ye are wise.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools, on account of Messiah; but ye are wise in Messiah! We are feeble; but ye are strong! Ye are lauded, we are contemned.
2 Corinthians 11:12But 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.
2 Corinthians 12:5Of him I will glory: but of myself I will not glory, except in my infirmities.
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.
1 Peter 1:24Because all flesh is as grass, and all its beauty like the flower of the field. The grass drieth up, and the flower withereth away;
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 →