2 Corinthians 3:5
Context3:5 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
Context5:20 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
Context7:5 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
Context11:17 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
Context12:13 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!
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.”