2 Corinthians 11:16
I say again, let no one think me foolish herein; but if they do, yet bear with my weakness, that I also may boast a little.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
17What I speak I speak not as from the Lord, but as in weakness, in this confidence of boasting.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 11:1I wish ye would bear with me a little in my folly; and indeed bear with me.
2 Corinthians 11:21I speak of their reproaches, as if we were weak: but whereinsoever any one may be confident (though I speak foolishly) I may be confident too.
2 Corinthians 12:11Am I become vain in boasting? ye have forced me to it: for I ought to have been recommended by you, as I have in nothing fallen short of the very chiefest of the apostles, 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 →