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15 Therefore it is not surprising his servants also disguise themselves[a] as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions.[b]

Paul’s Sufferings for Christ

16 I say again, let no one think that I am a fool.[c] But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence[d] I do not say the way the Lord would.[e] Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 11:15 tn Or “also masquerade.”
  2. 2 Corinthians 11:15 tn Or “their works.”
  3. 2 Corinthians 11:16 tn Or “am foolish.”
  4. 2 Corinthians 11:17 tn Grk “with this confidence of boasting.” The genitive καυχήσεως (kauchēseōs) has been translated as an attributive genitive (the noun in the genitive functions as an adjective of the noun modified).
  5. 2 Corinthians 11:17 tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”