Signs of an Apostle

11 I have become (A)a fool [a]in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for (B)in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though (C)I am nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 12:11 NU omits in boasting

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians

11 I have made a fool of myself,(A) but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,”[a](B) even though I am nothing.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 12:11 Or the most eminent apostles

For (A)if anyone thinks himself to be something, when (B)he is nothing, he deceives himself.

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If anyone thinks they are something(A) when they are not, they deceive themselves.(B)

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