2 Corinthians 11:4-6
New English Translation
4 For if someone comes and proclaims[a] another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed,[b] or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received,[c] or a different gospel than the one you accepted,[d] you put up with it well enough![e] 5 For I consider myself not at all inferior to those “super-apostles.”[f] 6 And even if I am unskilled[g] in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.
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- 2 Corinthians 11:4 tn Or “preaches.”
- 2 Corinthians 11:4 tn Grk “another Jesus whom we have not proclaimed.”
- 2 Corinthians 11:4 tn Grk “a different spirit which you did not receive.”
- 2 Corinthians 11:4 tn Grk “a different gospel which you did not accept.”
- 2 Corinthians 11:4 tn Or “you endure it very well.”
- 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 11:4-6
New International Version
4 For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached,(A) or if you receive a different spirit(B) from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel(C) from the one you accepted, you put up with it(D) easily enough.
5 I do not think I am in the least inferior to those “super-apostles.”[a](E) 6 I may indeed be untrained as a speaker,(F) but I do have knowledge.(G) We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way.
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 11:5 Or to the most eminent apostles
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