2 Corinthians 8:13

8:13 For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

2 Corinthians 10:10-11

10:10 because some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak ¹  and his speech is of no account.” ²  10:11 Let such a person consider this: What we say ³  by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

2 Corinthians 11:17

11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence ⁴  I do not say the way the Lord would. ⁵  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

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¹ tn Or “unimpressive.”

² tn Or “is contemptible”; Grk “is despised.”

³ tn Grk “what we are in word.”

⁴ 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).

⁵ tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”