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ForγὰρI consider thatλογίζομαιI have fallen shortὑστερηκέναιin nothingμηδὲνof thoseτῶνsuper-apostles.ὑπερλίαν ἀποστόλων
2 Corinthians 11:5
Study it in the app“For I consider that I have fallen short in nothing of those super-apostles.”
With the Greek beneath
2 Corinthians 11:5, word by word
- I consider thatλογίζομαιlogizomai
consider
To think that something is so.
Where else “logizomai” appears- I have fallen shortὑστερηκέναιhysterēkenai
be worse off
To be less than another.
Where else “hysterēkenai” appears- in nothingμηδὲνmēden
no one, nothing
No one, nothing.
Where else “mēden” appears- super-apostlesἀποστόλωνapostolōn
apostle
One of those Jesus chose and sent.
Where else “apostolōn” appears
Translation note
In Greek, “the apostles beyond all measure”; it can be understood as an ironic name for certain teachers who came to Corinth (compare 11:13).
The context
4For if the one who comes proclaims another Jesus whom we did not proclaim, or you receive a different spirit that you did not receive, or a different good news that you did not accept, you bear with it well enough!
5 · This verse (above)
6And even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; on the contrary, in every way we have made this manifest to you in all things.