2 Corinthians 11:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

2 Corinthians 11:5 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 12:11-12
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. …
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Galatians 2:6-9
But of these who seemed to be somewhat,(whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-15)

After the foregoing preface to what he was about to say, the apostle in these verses mentions, I. His equality with the other apostles—that he was not a whit behind the very chief of the apostles, 2 Cor. 11:5. This he expresses very modestly: I suppose so. He might have spoken very positively. The apostleship, as an office, was equal in all the apostles; but the apostles, like other Christians, di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. For--My claim is superior to that of the false teachers, “For,” &c. I suppose--I reckon [Alford]. I was not--Greek, “That I have not been, and am not.” the very chiefest apostles--James, Peter, and John, the witnesses of Christ’s transfiguration and agony in Gethsemane. Rather, “those overmuch apostles,” those surpassers of the apostles in their own esteem. This sense is proved by the fact that…