Discovery Box2 Corinthians 11:12 
Context11:12 And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals 1 in the things they boast about.
2 Corinthians 11:16-17
ContextPaul’s Sufferings for Christ
11:16 I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. 2 But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence 3 I do not say the way the Lord would. 4 Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.
1 tn Grk “an opportunity, so that they may be found just like us.”
2 tn Or “am foolish.”
3 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).
4 tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”
