2nd Corinthians Chapter 12 verse 5 Holy Bible
On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in `my' weaknesses.
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On account of such a one I will have glory: for myself I will take no glory, but only in my feeble body.
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Of such [a one] I will boast, but of myself I will not boast, unless in my weaknesses.
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Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
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On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
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Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Of such a one. These are legitimate subjects of "boast," because they are heavenly privileges, not earthly grounds of superiority. Except in my infirmities (2 Corinthians 11:30).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Of such an one will I glory.--There is, if we rightly understand it, an almost exquisite sadness in the distinction which is thus drawn by the Apostle between the old self of fourteen years ago, with this abundance of revelations, and the new self of the present, feebler and sadder than the old, worn with cares and sorrows, the daily rush of life and its ever-growing anxieties. Then he saw with open vision; now he walks by faith and not by the thing seen. He can hardly recognise his own identity, and can speak of the man who had then this capacity for the beatific vision as though he were another--almost as if he were dead and gone. The "non sum qualis eram" of decay and age presents manifold varieties of form, the soldier recalling the stir and the rush of battle, the poet finding that the vision and the "faculty divine" are no longer entrusted to his keeping, the eloquent orator who had "wielded at will a fierce democracy," complaining of slow speech and of a stammering tongue; but this has a sadness peculiar to itself. Faith, hope, love, peace, righteousness, are still there, but there has passed away a glory from the earth, and the joy of that ecstatic rapture lies in the remote past, never to return on earth.
