Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:
Since many boast according to flesh, I also will boast.
2 Corinthians — Paul's most personal letter. A defense of gospel ministry under pressure — comfort and conflict, giving and glory, weakness and power — with the tone shifting markedly at chapter 10.
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2 Corinthians 12:9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of…
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I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.
I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,
Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
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2 Corinthians 12:11I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
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I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”
I hope you will bear with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.
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2 Corinthians 11:12But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.
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Plainly, a Christian will "glory" even in the flesh; but (it will be) when it has endured laceration for Christ's sake, in order that the spirit may be crowned in it, not in order that it may draw the eyes and sighs of youths after it.
Seeing that many glory after the flesh,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
Seeing that many glory ... - The false teachers in Corinth. They boasted of their birth, rank, natural endowments, eloquence, etc.; see 2Co 11:22. Compare Php 3:3-4. I will glory also - I also will boast of my endowments, which though somewhat different yet pertain in the main to the flesh also; see 2Co 11:23 ff.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
I will glory also--that is, I also will boast of such fleshly advantages, to show you that even in these I am not their inferiors, and therefore ought not to be supplanted by them in your esteem; though these are not what I desire to glory in (2Co 10:17).
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
But he would not glory in those things, though he had as much or more reason than others to do so. But he gloried in his infirmities, as he tells them afterwards.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
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though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.
I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.
I will boast about such a man, but I will not boast about myself, except in my weaknesses.
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.
For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
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