2 Corinthians 11:18
Since many boast in the flesh, I will boast also.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
In Context
17What I speak I speak not as from the Lord, but as in weakness, in this confidence of boasting.
19For ye bear with fools willingly, being yourselves so 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 honoured, but we are despised.
2 Corinthians 11:12God 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.
2 Corinthians 12:5Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, unless in my infirmities.
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.
1 Peter 1:24For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass: the grass withereth, and the flower thereof 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 →