6For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
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I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: …
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
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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…
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