2 Corinthians 12:6
Yet if I were disposed to glory, I should not be without reason; for I declare the truth. But I refrain, lest any one should think of me, beyond what he seeth in me and heareth from me.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
5Of him I will glory: but of myself I will not glory, except in my infirmities.
Cross References
Romans 9:1I say the truth in Messiah, and do not misrepresent; and my conscience beareth me witness in the Holy Spirit;
1 Corinthians 3:9For we labor with God: and ye are God's husbandry, and God's edifice.
2 Corinthians 5:13For if we are extravagant, it is for God: and if we are discreet, it is for you.
2 Corinthians 11:16Again 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.
2 Corinthians 12:7And, that I might not be uplifted by the excellency of the revelations, there was imparted to me a thorn in my flesh, the angel of Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be uplifted.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 12:2-11
The Apostle's Rapture. ( a. d. 57.) 1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for… Read the whole commentary →