2 Corinthians 1:9

1:9 Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, ¹  so that we would not trust in ourselves ²  but in God who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 9:4

9:4 For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated ³  (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you. ⁴ 

2 Corinthians 11:6

11:6 And even if I am unskilled ⁵  in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

¹ tn Grk “we ourselves had the sentence of death within ourselves.” Here ἀπόκριμα (apokrima) is being used figuratively; no actual official verdict had been given, but in light of all the difficulties that Paul and his colleagues had suffered, it seemed to them as though such an official verdict had been rendered against them (L&N 56.26).

² tn Or “might not put confidence in ourselves.”

³ tn Or “be disgraced”; Grk “be put to shame.”

⁴ tn Grk “by this confidence”; the words “we had in you” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied as a necessary clarification for the English reader.

⁵ sn Unskilled in speaking means not professionally trained as a rhetorician.