We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
2 Corinthians 11:18 - English Standard Version 2016 Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [For] since many boast of worldly things and according to the flesh, I will glory (boast) also. American Standard Version (1901) Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. Common English Bible Since so many people are bragging based on human standards, that is how I’m going to brag too. Catholic Public Domain Version Since so many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also. |
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?
And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.
I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.
for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,