◄ 2 Corinthians 11:17 ►
In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
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I speak it.

1 Corinthians 7:6, 12
I say this as a concession, not as a command. . . .

foolishly.

2 Corinthians 11:18-27
Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast. . . .

2 Corinthians 9:4
Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we--to say nothing of you--would be ashamed of having been so confident.

Philippians 3:3-6
For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh-- . . .

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

King James Bible
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What I say in this matter of boasting, I don't speak as the Lord would, but foolishly.

International Standard Version
When I talk as a confident boaster, I am not talking with the Lord's authority but like a fool.

NET Bible
What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Everything that I speak, it is not by our Lord that I speak, but as in folly on this occasion of boasting.
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