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2 Corinthians 11:17

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11:17What I am saying with this boastful confidence31 I do not say the way the Lord would.32 Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

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Footnotes

  1. 31 Grk “with this confidence of boasting.” The genitive καυχήσεως (kauchēseōs) has been translated as an attributed genitive (the noun in the genitive gives an attribute of the noun modified).
  2. 32 Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not as the Lord would but as a fool.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

What I am saying in this matter of boasting, I don’t speak as the Lord would, but as it were, foolishly.

NLTNew Living Translation

Such boasting is not from the Lord, but I am acting like a fool.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

What I am saying in this project of boasting, I am not saying as the Lord would say, but as in foolishness.

KJV 1900King James Version

That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.