2 Corinthians 11:12
But I will persist in the same line of conduct in order to cut the ground from under the feet of those who desire an opportunity of getting themselves recognized as being on a level with us in the matters about which they boast.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
11And why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do.
13For men of this stamp are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, assuming the garb of Apostles of Christ.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?
2 Corinthians 1:17Did I display any vacillation or caprice in this? Or the purposes which I form--do I form them on worldly principles, now crying "Yes, yes," and now "No, no"?
2 Corinthians 10:17But "whoever boasts, let his boast be in the Lord."
2 Corinthians 11:18Since many boast for merely human reasons, I too will boast.
Galatians 6:13For these very men do not really keep the Law of Moses, but they would have you receive circumcision in order that they may glory in *your* bodies.
1 Timothy 5:14I would therefore have the younger women marry, bear children, rule in domestic matters, and furnish the Adversary with no excuse for slander.
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 →