2 Corinthians 11:17

11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence ¹  I do not say the way the Lord would. ²  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

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 

[11:17]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”

[9:4]  ³ tn Or “be disgraced”; Grk “be put to shame.”

[9:4]  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.