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15 Therefore it is no great thing if also his ministers are disguising themselves as ministers of righteousness— whose end shall be according to their works.

Don’t Think Me Foolish, But I Too Can Boast

16 Again I say, let no one think me to be foolish. Otherwise indeed, receive me even if as foolish, in order that I also may boast a little bit! 17 In this confidence[a] of boasting[b], what I am speaking, I am not speaking according-to the Lord, but as in foolishness.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 11:17 Or, subject, undertaking. That is, this confidence in my status as apostle about which I am boasting; or, this subject of boasting forced upon me; or, this undertaking of boasting I will begin in v 21.
  2. 2 Corinthians 11:17 Like his opponents, Paul will next boast in himself, in the flesh, rather than in the Lord; but Paul will boast in his weaknesses rather than his accomplishments.

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