2 Corinthians 11:12
God knoweth. But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those that desire an occasion of boasting or censure, that in what they boast of they may be found to do even as we do.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
11Wherefore? because I love you not?
13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transformed into apostles of Christ.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Do ye not know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?
2 Corinthians 1:17Now when I intended this, was I chargeable with levity? or what I purpose, do I purpose from carnal motives, that with me there should be yea, yea, and then no, no?
2 Corinthians 10:17But let him, that glorieth, glory in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 11:18Since many boast in the flesh, I will boast also.
Galatians 6:13For they, who are circumcised, do not themselves keep the law: but they would have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
1 Timothy 5:14I would therefore have the younger widows marry, bear children, manage houshold affairs, and give no occasion to the adversary for reproach.
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 →