the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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2 Corinthians 11:5
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For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.
For I consider myself in no way inferior to the most-eminent apostles.
But I don't think I'm any less of a cowboy than those other "top hands."
For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.
For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.
Now I consider myself in no way inferior to the "super-apostles."
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
But I suppose that I fall nothing short of the very chief apostles.
Why, I reckon myself in no respect inferior to those superlatively great Apostles.
For, I suppose, I was not a whit behinde the very chiefest Apostles.
For I judge myself to have come behind the highest apostles in nothing.
For I suppose that I am no lesse the the hye Apostles are.
for I think I am not at all inferior to the chiefest of the apostles.
Yet I consider myself in no way inferior to the [so-called] super-apostles.
For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
I think that I am not in the least inferior to these superlative apostles.
I suppose that I was not behynde ye chefe apostles.
For I reckon that I am not a bit behind the very chiefest apostles.
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very greatest apostles.
for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,
I do not think that those "great apostles" are any better than I am.
For I consider myself not at all inferior to those "super-apostles."
I consider myself in no way inferior to those "super-apostles."
I think I am as good as any of those super apostles.
For I don't consider myself in any way inferior to these "super-emissaries."
Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.
Verely I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chiefe Apostles.
For I think that I am not in the least inferior to the most distinguished apostles.
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
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For I consider that I am nothing inferior to those apostles who are most excellent.
For, I suppose, I came not short of those legates who most excel.
But I don't consider myself inferior in any way to these "super apostles" who teach such things.
I do not think I am less than those special missionaries who are coming to you.
For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
I think that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.
For I reckon not to have come a whit behind the exceeding overmuch apostles;
For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles.
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
For I consider myself in no way to be inferior to the preeminent apostles.
Ueryly I suppose that I was not behynde the chiefe Apostles.
I don't think that those "super apostles" are any better than I am.
For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.
I do not think that I am the least bit inferior to those very special so-called "apostles" of yours!
For Y wene that Y haue don no thing lesse than the grete apostlis.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I was not: 2 Corinthians 12:11, 2 Corinthians 12:12, 1 Corinthians 15:10, Galatians 2:6-9
Reciprocal: Numbers 12:3 - above Job 12:3 - But I have Job 13:2 - General Job 15:9 - knowest Matthew 20:27 - whosoever Acts 15:2 - the apostles Romans 1:1 - called 1 Corinthians 1:1 - an 1 Corinthians 9:1 - I not an 1 Corinthians 15:9 - the least 2 Corinthians 11:23 - I am Galatians 2:8 - the same Galatians 2:11 - I withstood
Cross-References
After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know."
So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain [fn] quaked greatly.
Then the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
The LORD is in His holy temple, The LORD's throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For I suppose I was not a whit behind,.... This is very modestly expressed by the apostle; for he does not assert, and in a haughty and confident way affirm, but only supposes, or thinks that this might be admitted, that he was not inferior to, or did not come short of, in gifts, grace, and usefulness,
the very chiefest of the apostles: such as Peter, James, and John; who seemed to be pillars, were eminent apostles, of great note among them, and such as Christ, in the days of his flesh, took particular notice of. This he says, not to exalt himself, but to show, how weakly and injudiciously the Corinthians acted in setting up the false apostle above him; or else these words are spoken ironically, and design the false teachers, who vaunted so much of their gifts, learning, eloquence, and usefulness; and extolled themselves at such a rate, as if they were υπερ λιαν αποστολων, "greatly above the apostles"; and therefore he jeeringly calls them
the very chiefest of them; and yet thinks fit to put himself at least, upon an equality with them: one manuscript reads, "the chiefest of the apostles among you"; and the Ethiopic version seems to have read you.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For I suppose ... - I think that I gave as good evidence that I was commissioned by God as the most eminent of the apostles. In the miracles which I performed; in the abundance of my labors, and in my success, I suppose that I did not fall behind any of them. If so, I ought to be regarded and treated as an apostle; and if so, then the false teachers should not be allowed to supplant me in your affections, or to seduce you from the doctrines which I have taught. On the evidence that Paul was equal to others in the proper proof of a commission from God; see notes on 2 Corinthians 11:21-30.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Corinthians 11:5. I was not - behind the very chiefest apostles. — That is: The most eminent of the apostles have not preached Christ, ministered the spirit, explained and enforced the doctrines of the Gospel in a more powerful and effectual manner than I have done.
