2nd Corinthians Chapter 11 verse 30 Holy Bible
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.
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If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.
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If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.
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If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
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If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
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if to boast it behoveth `me', of the things of my infirmity I will boast;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - If I must needs. If boasting is forced on me as a moral necessity (δεῖ). The things which concern mine infirmities. After all, St. Paul cannot keep up even for a few verses anything which can be regarded as "boasting after the flesh" (ver. 18). Practically his boasting has been only of those afflictions which to others might sound like a record of disgraces, but which left on him the marks of the Lord Jesus. His hairbreadth escapes were to him, as Bossuet said of the wounds of the Prince of Conde, "marks of the protection of Heaven."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) If I must needs glory . . .--The words form a transition to the narratives that follow. The question, "Who is weak and I am not weak?" has suggested the thought of the weakness and infirmity of various kinds with which his enemies reproached him. He will glory--here also with a touch of grave irony--in these and will leave his rivals to find what ground for boasting they can in what they call their strength. He is confident that his weak points are stronger than their strong ones.
