2 Corinthians 3:5

3:5 Not that we are adequate ¹  in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy ²  is from God,

2 Corinthians 5:20

5:20 Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His plea ³  through us. We plead with you ⁴  on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God!”

2 Corinthians 7:5

7:5 For even when we came into Macedonia, our body ⁵  had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way – struggles from the outside, fears from within.

2 Corinthians 11:17

11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence ⁶  I do not say the way the Lord would. ⁷  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

2 Corinthians 12:13

12:13 For how ⁸  were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

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¹ tn Or “competent.”

² tn Or “competence.”

³ tn Or “as though God were begging.”

⁴ tn Or “we beg you.”

⁵ tn Grk “our flesh.”

⁶ tn Grk “with this confidence of boasting.” The genitive καυχήσεως (kauchsew") has been translated as an attributed genitive (the noun in the genitive gives an attribute of the noun modified).

⁷ tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”

⁸ tn Grk “For in what respect.”