2 Korintus 11:4-5

11:4 For if someone comes and proclaims ¹  another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed, ²  or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received, ³  or a different gospel than the one you accepted, ⁴  you put up with it well enough! ⁵  11:5 For I consider myself not at all inferior to those “super-apostles.” ⁶ 

2 Korintus 11:16-18

Paul’s Sufferings for Christ

11:16 I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. ⁷  But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence ⁸  I do not say the way the Lord would. ⁹  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness. 11:18 Since many ¹⁰  are boasting according to human standards, ¹¹  I too will boast.

2 Korintus 12:11

The Signs of an Apostle

12:11 I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison ¹²  to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

[11:4]  ¹ tn Or “preaches.”

[11:4]  ² tn Grk “another Jesus whom we have not proclaimed.”

[11:4]  ³ tn Grk “a different spirit which you did not receive.”

[11:4]  ⁴ tn Grk “a different gospel which you did not accept.”

[11:4]  ⁵ tn Or “you endure it very well.”

[11:5]  ⁶ tn The implicit irony in Paul’s remark is brought out well by the TEV: “I do not think that I am the least bit inferior to those very special so-called ‘apostles’ of yours!”

[11:5]  sn The ‘super-apostles’ refers either (1) to the original apostles (the older interpretation) or (2) more probably, to Paul’s opponents in Corinth, in which case the designation is ironic.

[11:16]  ⁷ tn Or “am foolish.”

[11:17]  ⁸ tn Grk “with this confidence of boasting.” The genitive καυχήσεως (kauchsew") has been translated as an attributed genitive (the noun in the genitive gives an attribute of the noun modified).

[11:17]  ⁹ tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”

[11:18]  ¹⁰ sn Many is a reference to Paul’s opponents.

[11:18]  ¹¹ tn Grk “according to the flesh.”

[12:11]  ¹² tn Or “I am in no way inferior.”