2 Corinthians 12:11 - New Revised Standard Version

I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Now I have been [speaking like] a fool! But you forced me to it, for I ought to have been [saved the necessity and] commended by you. For I have not fallen short one bit or proved myself at all inferior to those superlative [false] apostles [of yours], even if I am nothing (a nobody).

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

I’ve become a fool! You made me do it. Actually, I should have been commended by you. I’m not inferior to the super-apostles in any way, even though I’m a nonentity.

Catholic Public Domain Version

I have become foolish; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you. For I have been nothing less than those who claim to be above the measure of Apostles, even though I am nothing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

2 Corinthians 12:11 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 27:2

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth— a stranger, and not your own lips.

Luke 17:10

So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, ‘We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!’ ”

1 Corinthians 13:2

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 3:22

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all belong to you,

2 Corinthians 1:6

If we are being afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation; if we are being consoled, it is for your consolation, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we are also suffering.

2 Corinthians 11:1

I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!

2 Corinthians 11:5

I think that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.

2 Corinthians 12:12

The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, signs and wonders and mighty works.

2 Corinthians 12:6

But if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think better of me than what is seen in me or heard from me,

2 Corinthians 3:1

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?

2 Corinthians 5:13

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

Galatians 6:3

For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.

Ephesians 3:8

Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the Gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ,