KJV King James Version
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
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2 Corinthians 11:30
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
WEB World English Bible
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
ASV American Standard Version
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
if to boast it behoveth me, of the things of my infirmity I will boast;
Surrounding context — 2 Corinthians 11
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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2 Corinthians 12:5-11Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.Jeremiah 9:23-24Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches:1 Corinthians 2:3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.Proverbs 25:27[It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory.2 Corinthians 11:16-18I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.Proverbs 27:2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.2 Corinthians 12:1It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.Colossians 1:24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
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