2 Corinthians 11:5
New International Version
I do not think I am in the least inferior to those “super-apostles.”

New Living Translation
But I don’t consider myself inferior in any way to these “super apostles” who teach such things.

English Standard Version
Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.

Berean Standard Bible
I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”

Berean Literal Bible
For I reckon in nothing to have been inferior to those "most eminent apostles."

King James Bible
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

New King James Version
For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles.

New American Standard Bible
For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.

NASB 1995
For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.

NASB 1977
For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.

Legacy Standard Bible
For I consider myself in no way inferior to the most-eminent apostles.

Amplified Bible
Yet I consider myself in no way inferior to the [so-called] super-apostles.

Christian Standard Bible
Now I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now I consider myself in no way inferior to the “super-apostles.”

American Standard Version
For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For I think that I have not come short in anything compared to those Apostles who greatly excel.

Contemporary English Version
I think I am as good as any of those super apostles.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles.

English Revised Version
For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I don't think I'm inferior in any way to your super-apostles.

Good News Translation
I do not think that I am the least bit inferior to those very special so-called "apostles" of yours!

International Standard Version
I do not think I'm inferior in any way to those "super-apostles."

Literal Standard Version
for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

Majority Standard Bible
I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”

New American Bible
For I think that I am not in any way inferior to these “superapostles.”

NET Bible
For I consider myself not at all inferior to those "super-apostles."

New Revised Standard Version
I think that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.

New Heart English Bible
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very greatest apostles.

Weymouth New Testament
Why, I reckon myself in no respect inferior to those superlatively great Apostles.

World English Bible
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

Young's Literal Translation
for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

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Context
Paul and the False Apostles
4For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it way too easily. 5 I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.” 6Although I am not a polished speaker, I am certainly not lacking in knowledge. We have made this clear to you in every way possible.…

Cross References
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those "super-apostles," even though I am nothing.

Galatians 2:6
But as for the highly esteemed--whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism--those leaders added nothing to me.

Galatians 2:9
And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John--those reputed to be pillars--gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.


Treasury of Scripture

For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very most chief apostles.

I was not.

2 Corinthians 12:11,12
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…

1 Corinthians 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.

Galatians 2:6-9
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: …

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2 Corinthians 11
1. Out of his jealousy over the Corinthians, he enters into a forced commendation of himself,
5. of his equality with the chief apostles,
7. of his preaching the gospel to them freely, and without any charge to them;
13. showing that he was not inferior to those deceitful workers in any legal prerogative;
23. and in the service of Christ, and in all kinds of sufferings for his ministry, far superior.














(5) For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.--The verb with which the sentence opens is the same as the "I think," "I reckon," which characterises these chapters, and which, being characteristic, ought to be retained. I reckon I have not fallen short of those apostles-extraordinary. The whole tone of the passage ought to have made it impossible for any commentator to imagine that the words referred to Peter and James and John as the pillars of the Church of Jerusalem (Galatians 2:9). Of them he speaks, even in his boldest moments, with respect, even where respect is mingled with reproof. He is glad to remember how they gave to him and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. He presents himself at Jerusalem a few months after writing these words, and almost submissively follows the counsel which James gives him (Acts 21:26). It is, accordingly, simply the insanity of controversy to imagine that these words have any bearing on the question of the primacy of St. Peter. Those whom he holds up to scorn with an almost withering irony, as "apostles-extraordinary" (he coins a word which literally means, "these extra-special or over-extra apostles"), are the false teachers, claiming to stand in a special relation to Christ, to be His Apostles--perhaps, also, to have a double title to the name, as delegates of the Church of Jerusalem. Of these he speaks more fully in 2Corinthians 11:13.

Verse 5. - For. It cannot be that you received this rival teacher as being so much superior to me; for, etc. I suppose. Again, like the Latin censeo or opinor, with a touch of irony. I was not a whit behind; in no respect have I come short of. The very chiefest apostles. The word used by St. Paul for "very chiefest" is one which, in its strangeness, marks the vehemence of his emotion. It involves an indignant sense that he had been most disparagingly compared with other apostles, as though he were hardly a genuine apostle at all. Yet he reckons himself to have done as much as the "above exceedingly" - or, as it might be expressed, the "out and out," "extra-super," or "super-apostolic," apostles. There is here no reflection whatever on the twelve; he merely means that, even if any with whom he was uufavourably contrasted were "apostles ten times over," he can claim to be in the front rank with them. This is no more than he has said with the utmost earnestness in 1 Corinthians 15:10; Galatians 2:6. There is no self-assertion here; but, in consequence of the evil done by his detractors, St. Paul, with an utter sense of distaste, is forced to say the simple truth.

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Greek
I consider myself
Λογίζομαι (Logizomai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 3049: To reckon, count, charge with; reason, decide, conclude; think, suppose.

in no way
μηδὲν (mēden)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3367: No one, none, nothing.

inferior
ὑστερηκέναι (hysterēkenai)
Verb - Perfect Infinitive Active
Strong's 5302: From husteros; to be later, i.e. to be inferior; generally, to fall short.

to those
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

“super-apostles.”
Ὑπερλίαν (Hyperlian)
Adverb
Strong's 5228: Gen: in behalf of; acc: above.


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