2 Corinthians 12:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

2 Corinthians 12:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 11:30
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
1 Corinthians 2:3
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. …

Topics

Fasting Gentleness Humiliation and Self-Affliction Humility Meekness Modesty Mortification Self-Denial

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-10)

Here we may observe, I. The narrative the apostle gives of the favours God had shown him, and the honour he had done him; for doubtless he himself is the man in Christ of whom he speaks. Concerning this we may take notice, 1. Of the honour itself which was done to the apostle: he was caught up into the third heaven, 2 Cor. 12:2. When this was we cannot say, whether it was during those three days t…

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

(vv. 5)

5. of myself--concerning myself. Self is put in the background, except in respect to his infirmities. His glorying in his other self, to which the revelations were vouchsafed, was not in order to give glory to his fleshly self, but to bring out in contrast the “infirmities” of the latter, that Christ might have all the glory.