11 I was a fool to boast myself: ye have compelled me: [a]for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I inferior unto the very chief Apostles, though I be nothing.

12 The [b]signs of an Apostle were wrought among you with all patience, with signs, and wonders and great works.

13 For what is it, wherein ye were inferiors unto other Churches, (A)except that I have not been [c]slothful to your hindrance? forgive me this wrong.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 12:11 Again he maketh the Corinthians witnesses of those things whereby God had sealed his Apostleship amongst them, and again he desireth by certain arguments, how far he is from all covetousness, and also how he is affectioned towards them.
  2. 2 Corinthians 12:12 The arguments whereby it may well appear, that I am indeed an Apostle of Jesus Christ.
  3. 2 Corinthians 12:13 I was not slothful in getting my living with mine own hands, that I might not be burdensome to you.

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