2 Corinthians 11:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold,(I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

2 Corinthians 11:21 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 10:10
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
2 Corinthians 10:1-2
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: …
2 Corinthians 11:17
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
2 Corinthians 13:10
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
2 Corinthians 11:22-27
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 16-21)

Here we have a further excuse that the apostle makes for what he was about to say in his own vindication. 1. He would not have them think he was guilty of folly, in saying what he said to vindicate himself: Let no man think me a fool, 2 Cor. 11:16. Ordinarily, indeed, it is unbecoming a wise man to be much and often speaking in his own praise. Boasting of ourselves is usually not only a sign of a…

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

(vv. 21)

21. as concerning reproach--rather, “by way of dishonor (that is, self-disparagement) I say it.” as though we ... weak--in not similarly (2Co 11:20) showing our power over you. “An ironical reminiscence of his own abstinence when among them from all these acts of self-exaltation at their expense” (as if such abstinence was weakness) [Alford]. The “we” is emphatically contrasted with the false teac…