2 Corinthians 11:16

To return to what I was saying. Let no one suppose that I am foolish. Or if you must, at any rate make allowance for me as being foolish, in order that I, as well as they, may boast a little.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

15It is therefore no great thing for his servants also to disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be in accordance with their actions.

17What I am now saying, I do not say by the Lord's command, but as a fool in his folly might, in this reckless boasting.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:1I wish you could have borne with a little foolish boasting on my part. Nay, do bear with me.

2 Corinthians 11:21I use the language of self-disparagement, as though I were admitting our own feebleness. Yet for whatever reason any one is `courageous' --I speak in mere folly--I also am courageous.

2 Corinthians 12:11It is foolish of me to write all this, but you have compelled me to do so. Why, you ought to have been my vindicators; for in no respect have I been inferior to these superlatively great Apostles, even though in myself I am nothing.

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 →

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