For I consider myself in no way to be inferior to the preeminent apostles.[a] But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; certainly in everything we have made this clear to you in every way. Or did I commit a sin by[b] humbling myself in order that you may be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you without payment?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 11:5 Some interpreters take this to refer to the original apostles in Jerusalem; others take Paul to be referring sarcastically to his opponents in Corinth.
  2. 2 Corinthians 11:7 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“humbling”) which is understood as means