2 Corinthians 12:11 “I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing.

Darby Translation

I have become a fool; ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended by you; for I have been nothing behind those who were in surpassing degree apostles, if also I am nothing.

Young's Literal Translation

I have become a fool — boasting; ye — ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles — even if I am nothing.

Bible in Basic English

I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

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Cross references

“become”

2 Corinthians 11:1 2 Corinthians 1:6 2 Corinthians 11:16 2 Corinthians 11:17

2 Corinthians 11:1 · BSB

I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.

2 Corinthians 1:6 · BSB

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

2 Corinthians 11:16 · BSB

I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

2 Corinthians 11:17 · BSB

In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

“for in”

2 Corinthians 11:5 2 Corinthians 12:12 1 Corinthians 3:4–7 1 Corinthians 3:22 Galatians 2:6–14

2 Corinthians 11:5 · BSB

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

2 Corinthians 12:12 · BSB

The marks of a true apostle—signs, wonders, and miracles—were performed among you with great perseverance.

1 Corinthians 3:4–7 · BSB

For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

1 Corinthians 3:22 · BSB

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

Galatians 2:6–14 · BSB

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.

“though”

1 Corinthians 15:8–10 Ephesians 3:8 Luke 17:10 1 Corinthians 3:7

1 Corinthians 15:8–10 · BSB

And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.

Ephesians 3:8 · BSB

Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Luke 17:10 · BSB

So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”

1 Corinthians 3:7 · BSB

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

Also

2 Corinthians 12:6

2 Corinthians 12:6 · BSB

Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

12The marks of a true apostle—signs, wonders, and miracles—were performed among you with great perseverance.

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