Paul Adopts the Fool’s Boast

2 Corinthians 11:16-21

I say again (Let no man think me to be foolish: otherwise take me as one foolish, that I also may glory a little):

That which I speak, I speak not according to God: but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.

Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.

For you gladly suffer the foolish: whereas yourselves are wise.

For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face.

I seek according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.