2 Corinthians 11:12

and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

In Context

11wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

13for those such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 5:6Not good [is] your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?

2 Corinthians 1:17This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?

2 Corinthians 10:17and he who is boasting — in the Lord let him boast;

2 Corinthians 11:18since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:

Galatians 6:13for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

1 Timothy 5:14I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

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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