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2 Corinthians 11:5-7
New English Translation
2 Corinthians 11:5-7
New English Translation
5 For I consider myself not at all inferior to those “super-apostles.”[a] 6 And even if I am unskilled[b] in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way. 7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself[c] so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed[d] the gospel of God to you free of charge?
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- 2 Corinthians 11:5 tn The implicit irony in Paul’s remark is brought out well by the TEV “I do not think that I am the least bit inferior to those very special so-called ‘apostles’ of yours!”sn The ‘super-apostles’ refers either (1) to the original apostles (the older interpretation) or (2) more probably, to Paul’s opponents in Corinth, in which case the designation is ironic.
- 2 Corinthians 11:6 sn Unskilled in speaking means not professionally trained as a rhetorician.
- 2 Corinthians 11:7 sn Paul is referring to humbling himself to the point of doing manual labor to support himself.
- 2 Corinthians 11:7 tn Or “preached.”
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