2 Corinthians 11:13

11:13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful ¹  workers, disguising themselves ²  as apostles of Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:17

11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence ³  I do not say the way the Lord would. ⁴  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

2 Corinthians 11:26

11:26 I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, ⁵  in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, ⁶  in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,

[11:13]  ¹ tn Or “dishonest.”

[11:13]  ² tn Or “workers, masquerading.”

[11:17]  ³ 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).

[11:17]  ⁴ tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”

[11:26]  ⁵ tn Or “bandits.” The word normally refers more to highwaymen (“robbers”) but can also refer to insurrectionists or revolutionaries (“bandits”).

[11:26]  ⁶ tn Or “desert.”