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2 Corinthians 11:12

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I’m just trying to keep things open and honest between us.

12–15And I’m not changing my position on this. I’d die before taking your money. I’m giving nobody grounds for lumping me in with those money-grubbing “preachers,” vaunting themselves as something special.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But I will continue to do what I am doing, in order to deny an opportunity to those who want to be regarded as our equals in what they boast about.

NLTNew Living Translation

But I will continue doing what I have always done. This will undercut those who are looking for an opportunity to boast that their work is just like ours.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But what I am doing, I will also do, in order that I may remove the opportunity of those who want an opportunity, that they may be found just as also we are in what they are boasting about.

KJV 1900King James Version

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.