2 Corinthians 11:12
But, what I am doing, I also will do,—that I may cut off the occasion of them who are wishing an occasion, that, wherein they are boasting themselves, they may be found even as also, we.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
11Wherefore? Because I love you not? God, knoweth!
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Unseemly, is your boast! Know ye not that, a little leaven, doth leaven, the whole of the lump?
2 Corinthians 1:17This, then, being my purpose, perhaps, after all, with lightness, I dealt [with the matter]? or, the things that I purpose, according to the flesh, I purpose,—that, with me, should be the Yea, yea, and the Nay, nay?
2 Corinthians 10:17He that boasteth, however, in the Lord, let him boast;
2 Corinthians 11:18Since, many, are boasting after the flesh, I also, will boast;
Galatians 6:13For, not even they who are getting circumcised, are, themselves, observing law,—but are wishing you to be circumcised, that, in your flesh, they may boast themselves.
1 Timothy 5:14I am minded, therefore, that, the younger ones, marry, bear children, be mistress of the house,—giving, no single occasion, unto the opposer, as a cause, of 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 →