2 Corinthians 11:12
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
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In Context
11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.
13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
2 Corinthians 1:17When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"
2 Corinthians 10:17But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
2 Corinthians 11:18Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
Galatians 6:13For even they who receive circumcision do not keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
1 Timothy 5:14I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.
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 →