the gospel:
not to glory in another man's rule, in those things that are made ready
to our hand.

10:17. But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

10:18. For not he who commendeth himself is approved: but he, whom God
commendeth.

2 Corinthians Chapter 11

He is forced to commend himself and his labours, lest the Corinthians
should be imposed upon by the false apostles.

11:1. Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly! But do
bear with me.

My folly... So he calls his reciting his own praises, which, commonly
speaking is looked upon as a piece of folly and vanity; though the
apostle was constrained to do it, for the good of the souls committed to
his charge.

11:2. For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have
espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin
to Christ.

11:3. But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so
your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in
Christ.

11:4. For if he that cometh preacheth another Christ, whom we have not
preached; or if you receive another Spirit, whom you have not received;
or another gospel, which you have not received: you might well bear with
him.

11:5. For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great
apostles.

11:6. For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge: but in all
things we have been made manifest to you.

11:7. Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be
exalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely?

11:8. I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your
ministry.

11:9. And, when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to
no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came
from Macedonia. And in all things I have kept myself from being
burthensome to you: and so I will keep myself.

11:10. The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be
broken off in me in the regions of Achaia.

11:11. Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.

11:12. But what I do, that I will do: that I may cut off the occasion
from them that desire occasion: that wherein they glory, they may be
found even as we.

11:13. For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ.

11:14. And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an
angel of light.

11:15. Therefore it is no great th