2 Corinthians 8:21

8:21 For we are concerned about what is right not only before the Lord but also before men. ¹ 

2 Corinthians 11:17

11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence ²  I do not say the way the Lord would. ³  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

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¹ sn An allusion to Prov 3:4.

² 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).

³ tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”