2 Corinthians 11:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²But 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.

2 Corinthians 11:12 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 9:12
If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:9
And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
Galatians 1:7
Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Philippians 1:15-30
Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: …
2 Corinthians 10:17
But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Topics

Decision Minister, Christian Zeal, Religious

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-15)

After the foregoing preface to what he was about to say, the apostle in these verses mentions, I. His equality with the other apostles—that he was not a whit behind the very chief of the apostles, 2 Cor. 11:5. This he expresses very modestly: I suppose so. He might have spoken very positively. The apostleship, as an office, was equal in all the apostles; but the apostles, like other Christians, di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. I will do--I will continue to decline help. occasion--Greek, “the occasion,” namely, of misrepresenting my motives, which would be afforded to my detractors, if I accepted help. that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we--Bengel joins this clause with “the occasion,” namely, of glorying or boasting; the occasion “that they may be found (a point wherein they glory) even as we,” that…