2 Corinthians 11:5

For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.

6But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:10But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Galatians 2:6But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 11:2-5

The Apostle Asserts His Claims. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But 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. 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive… Read the whole commentary →

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