2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
KJV
Γέγονα ἄφρων· ὑμεῖς με ἠναγκάσατε. ἐγὼ γὰρ ὤφειλον ὑφ’ ὑμῶν συνίστασθαι· οὐδὲν γὰρ ὑστέρησα τῶν ὑπερλίαν ἀποστόλων, εἰ καὶ οὐδέν εἰμι.
Greek NT
Factus sum insipiens, vos me coëgistis. Ego enim a vobis debui commendari : nihil enim minus fui ab iis, qui sunt supra modum Apostoli : tametsi nihil sum :
Vulgate
I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
ASV
I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἄφρων — SBLGNT
- ἄφρων — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + καυχώμενος — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 9:1 — Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
- 1Cor 15:8 — And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
- 1Cor 15:9 — For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
- 1Cor 15:10 — But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- 2Cor 3:1 — Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
- 2Cor 5:13 — For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
- 2Cor 11:1 — Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
- 2Cor 11:5 — For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
- 2Cor 11:5 — For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
- 2Cor 12:1 — It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
- 2Cor 12:6 — For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
- Acts 16:15 — And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
- Gal 2:6 — But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man’s person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
- Gal 2:11 — But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
- Gal 6:3 — For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
- Job 13:2 — What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
- Job 27:6 — My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
- Num 12:3 — (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
- Prov 27:2 — Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
- Rom 1:1 — Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
- Rom 15:17 — I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.