2 Corinthians 11:6 Cross References - Mace

⁶ if my language is inelegant, my knowledge is not contemptible; but has been fully display'd among you on all occasions.

¹⁷ for Christ did not send me to baptize: but to preach the gospel: tho' not with the preaching of the wise, lest the cross of Christ should have been hinder'd in its efficacy.

²¹ for whereas the world, with all their learning, did not distinguish the characters of his divine wisdom, in his works, it pleased God to save those who believe, by preaching, which they counted folly.

¹ As for me, my brethren, when I appear'd among you, it was not to represent to you the divine mystery in sublime language, and with human literature. ² for I did not think I was to have any other knowledge among you, than that of Christ, a crucified saviour. ³ I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in great agony:

¹³ this is what we declare, not in the words which human wisdom, but which the holy spirit dictates; explaining spiritual things in a spiritual language.

² renouncing all secret dishonesty, and void of all artifice, I deliver the word of God unadulterated, and recommend my self by urging the truth home to every man's conscience, as in the presence of God.

¹¹ Shall I then, who know this terrible judgment of the Lord, endeavour to appease men? as for God, I am approved by him, and I trust also you are convinced of my being so approved.

² Receive me as one who has wronged no man, who has corrupted no man, who has defrauded no man.

¹⁰ (for 'tis objected that my letters are weighty and powerful, but my bodily presence weak, and my preaching

¹² the marks indeed of an apostle I have shown among you by my extreme patience, by signs, and prodigies, and miracles.

⁴ by the reading whereof you may perceive how far I am let into the secret of Christ.

¹⁵ that the patience of our Lord is for your advantage: as our dear brother Paul, according to the information he receiv'd, has writ to you, ¹⁶ as it were in all his epistles, where he takes notice of these things: in which there are some passages that are difficult to understand, which the illiterate, and unstable wrest, as they do the rest of the scriptures, to their own ruin.