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For I Come Short of No Other Apostle, Especially In Knowledge

For I think that I have in no way come-short-of [a] the superlative[b] apostles. But even though I am untrained in speech, nevertheless I am not in knowledge. But in every way we made this evident in all things to you.

Or Did I Sin By Not Letting You Pay Me?

Or[c] did I commit a sin [by] humbling myself in order that you might be exalted— because I freely[d] announced-as-good-news to you the good-news of God?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 11:5 Or, been-inferior-to.
  2. 2 Corinthians 11:5 That is, these ‘super’ apostles, as they think of themselves (who are false apostles, v 13); or, the chief, most-eminent apostles, such as Peter, James, and John.
  3. 2 Corinthians 11:7 Paul brings up one way in which his opponents would have regarded him as inferior.
  4. 2 Corinthians 11:7 Paul did not earn his living from his teaching. He supported himself, taking no money from them.

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