For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
Parallel translations
- KJV For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
- BSB I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”
- NKJV For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles.
- NASB For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.
- NLT But I don’t consider myself inferior in any way to these “super apostles” who teach such things.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- 2 Cor 12:11–12I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
- Gal 2:6–9But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man) — they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
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