2 Corinthians 11:12
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
2 Corinthians 1:17When I therefore was thus minded, did I shew fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay?
2 Corinthians 10:17But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 11:18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
Galatians 6:13For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
1 Timothy 5:14I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give none 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 →