2 Corinthians 11:18

Paul Boasts In His Sufferings

¹⁷ What I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting. ¹⁸ Since many glory according to the flesh, I also will boast. ¹⁹ For you gladly bear with fools, being wise.

According to the Flesh

Earthly Things

I Will Boast

Of the Flesh

After The Flesh

Jeremiah 9:23-24

So says Jehovah, Do not let the wise glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty glory in his might; do not let the rich glory in his riches;

1 Corinthians 4:10

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised.

2 Corinthians 10:12-18

For we do not dare to rank or compare ourselves with some of the ones commending themselves. But they, measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves to themselves, are not perceptive.

2 Corinthians 11:12

But what I do, that I will do, so that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion; so that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

2 Corinthians 11:21-23

I speak according to dishonor, as though we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares (I speak foolishly), I also dare.

2 Corinthians 12:5-6

I will glory of such a one, yet I will not boast on my behalf, except in my weaknesses.

2 Corinthians 12:9

And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may overshadow me.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become foolish boasting. You compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you. For I lacked nothing of the highest apostles, if even I am nothing.

Philippians 3:3-4

For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh;

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls out,