2 Corinthians 11:5

11:5 For I consider myself not at all inferior to those “super-apostles.” ¹ 

2 Corinthians 10:2

10:2 now I ask that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence that (I expect) I will dare to use against some who consider us to be behaving ²  according to human standards. ³ 

2 Corinthians 3:5

3:5 Not that we are adequate ⁴  in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy ⁵  is from God,

2 Corinthians 10:7

10:7 You are looking at outward appearances. ⁶  If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.

2 Corinthians 10:11

10:11 Let such a person consider this: What we say ⁷  by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

2 Corinthians 5:19

5:19 In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us ⁸  the message of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 12:6

12:6 For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling ⁹  the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard ¹⁰  me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,

¹ tn The implicit irony in Paul’s remark is brought out well by the TEV: “I do not think that I am the least bit inferior to those very special so-called ‘apostles’ of yours!”

² tn Grk “consider us as walking.”

³ tn Grk “according to the flesh.”

³ tn Or “competent.”

⁴ tn Or “competence.”

⁴ tn The phrase is close to a recognized idiom for judging based on outward appearances (L&N 30.120). Some translators see a distinction, however, and translate 2 Cor 10:7a as “Look at what is in front of your eyes,” that is, the obvious facts of the case (so NRSV).

⁵ tn Grk “what we are in word.”

⁶ tn Or “he has entrusted to us.”

⁷ tn Or “speaking.”

⁸ tn Or “may think of.”