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2 Corinthians 11:5 KJV
2 Corinthians · chapter 11 · verse 5
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.2 Corinthians 11:5 · King James Version
2 Corinthians 11:5 in context
3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
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Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- chiefestliangreatly, exceedingly, exceedingly beyond measureG3029 →
- apostlesapostolosa delegate, messenger, one sent forth with orders, specifically applied to the twelve…G652 →
- supposelogizomaito reckon, count, compute, calculate, count over, to take into account, to make an…G3049 →
- behindhystereōbehind, to come late or too tardily, to be left behind in the race and so fail to reach…G5302 →
- whitmēdeisnobody, no one, nothingG3367 →
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After the foregoing preface to what he was about to say, the apostle in these verses mentions, I. His equality with the other apostles - that he was not a whit behind the very chief of the apostles, Co2 11:5. This he expresses very modestly: I suppose so. He might have spoken very positively.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-15