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17 For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit,[a] but we are speaking in Christ before[b] God as persons of sincerity,[c] as persons sent from God.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 2:17 tn The participle καπηλεύοντες (kapēleuontes) refers to those engaged in retail business, but with the negative connotations of deceptiveness and greed—“to peddle for profit,” “to huckster” (L&N 57.202). In the translation a noun form (“hucksters”) has been used in combination with the English verb “peddle…for profit” to convey the negative connotations of this term.
  2. 2 Corinthians 2:17 tn Or “in the presence of.”
  3. 2 Corinthians 2:17 tn Or “persons of pure motives.”