111 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
111 I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, please put up with me!
111 I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!
111 Will you put up with a little foolish aside from me? Please, just for a moment.
111 Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly--and indeed you do bear with me.
111 I hope you will put up with a little more of my foolishness. Please bear with me.
16 I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting.
16 I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
16 Let me come back to where I started - and don't hold it against me if I continue to sound a little foolish. Or if you'd rather, just accept that I am a fool and let me rant on a little.
16 I say again, let no one think me a fool. If otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little.
16 Again I say, don't think that I am a fool to talk like this. But even if you do, listen to me, as you would to a foolish person, while I also boast a little.
(Read 2 Corinthians 11:16-21)
It is the duty and practice of Christians to humble themselves, in obedience to the command and example of the Lord; yet prudence must direct in what it is needful to do things which we may do lawfully, even the speaking of what God has wrought for us, and in us, and by us. Doubtless here is reference to facts in which the character of the false apostles had been shown. It is astonishing to see how such men bring their followers into bondage, and how they take from them and insult them.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
17 In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not with the Lord's authority but as a fool.
17 I didn't learn this kind of talk from Christ.
17 What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
17 Such boasting is not from the Lord, but I am acting like a fool.
(Read 2 Corinthians 11:16-21)
It is the duty and practice of Christians to humble themselves, in obedience to the command and example of the Lord; yet prudence must direct in what it is needful to do things which we may do lawfully, even the speaking of what God has wrought for us, and in us, and by us. Doubtless here is reference to facts in which the character of the false apostles had been shown. It is astonishing to see how such men bring their followers into bondage, and how they take from them and insult them.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Corinthians 11:1
Commentary on 2 Corinthians 11:1-4
(Read 2 Corinthians 11:1-4)
The apostle desired to preserve the Corinthians from being corrupted by the false apostles. There is but one Jesus, one Spirit, and one gospel, to be preached to them, and received by them; and why should any be prejudiced, by the devices of an adversary, against him who first taught them in faith? They should not listen to men, who, without cause, would draw them away from those who were the means of their conversion.