2 Corinthians 11:18
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
In Context
19For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.
2 Corinthians 11:12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them who desire occasion; that in what they glory, they may be found even as we.
2 Corinthians 12:5Of such one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in my infirmities.
2 Corinthians 12:11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing am I behind the very greatest apostles, though I am nothing.
1 Peter 1:24For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and its flower falleth away:
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 11:17-22
The Apostle Asserts His Claims. ( a. d. 57.) 16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if… Read the whole commentary →