2 Corinthians 11:18 Cross References - Mace

¹⁸ since many glory in outward advantages, I will glory too.

¹⁰ we are made fools for our attachment to Christ, while you, who are christians too, still pass for the wise: we are in poverty, but you are in power: you meet with esteem, but we find contempt.

¹² for I dare not rank or compare my self with some who vaunt themselves: but they making their self-conceit the only standard whereby to judge of themselves, show their want of judgment. ¹³ I will not boast of any thing done without my province, but confine myself within that line by which God has mark'd out my bounds, and in which you are included. ¹⁴ for I do not stretch beyond my limits to take you in; since in preaching the gospel of Christ, we are advanced even to you. ¹⁵ I don't assume to myself the credit of other men's labours in another province, but hope, that when your faith is increased, the bounds now prescribed will be enlarged by you yet farther; ¹⁶ so that I may preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not assume the credit of things ready prepared to my hand, in another man's province. ¹⁷ but he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. ¹⁸ for not he that commendeth himself, but he whom the Lord commendeth, is the approved.

¹² but this I do, and shall do, to make them drop their hire, who are so bent upon hire: and then indeed they will be as they pretend to be, like me.

²¹ as if I was inferior to them. but whatever they pretend to, (I must be so vain) I pretend to the like. ²² Are they Hebrews? so am I: are they Israelites? so am I: are they of the race of Abraham? ²³ so am I: are they ministers of Christ? is it my vanity? I am more so: in toilsome labours I surpass them, in stripes I am exceedingly beyond them, in prisons I have been oftner, and frequently in the very jaws of death.

⁵ I might glory in being the man; but I will not glory in any thing relating to myself, unless it be my sufferings. ⁶ tho' if I had a mind to glory, I might do it without vanity, for I should say nothing but what is true: but now I forbear, lest any man should ascribe more to me than my actions, or my preaching can justify.

⁹ but he said to me, "my favour is sufficient for thee: for my strength is shown to be perfect by thy weakness." with pleasure therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may be seen to dwell in me.

¹¹ Am I become vain? 'tis you have forc'd me to it: for I ought to have been commended by you: since I am not inferior to the chiefest of the apostles, tho' in myself I am nothing.

³ for we are the genuine sons of Abraham, who worship God in the spiritual manner, and value no other dependance than that on Jesus Christ, without confiding in any external advantages: ⁴ which I might do more justly than any other man can pretend to:

²⁴ for human nature is like grass, and all their glory like the flower of the herb, the herb withers, the flower droops,