2 Corinthians 11:12
What I am doing now I shall continue to do, that I may cut away the ground from under those who are wishing for some ground for attacking me, so that as regards the thing of which they boast they may appear in their true characters, just as we do.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?
2 Corinthians 1:17As this was my plan, where, pray, did I show any fickleness of purpose? Or do you think that my plans are formed on mere impulse, so that in the same breath I say ‘Yes’ and ‘No’?
2 Corinthians 10:17‘Let him who boasts make his boast of the Lord.’
2 Corinthians 11:18As so many are boasting of earthly things, I, too, will boast.
Galatians 6:13Even these men who are circumcised do not themselves keep the Law; yet they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast of your observance of the rite.
1 Timothy 5:14Therefore I advise young widows to marry, bear children, and attend to their homes, and so avoid giving the enemy an opportunity for scandal.
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 →