4-6 It seems that if someone shows up preaching quite another Jesus than we preached—different spirit, different message—you put up with him quite nicely. But if you put up with these big-shot “apostles,” why can’t you put up with simple me? I’m as good as they are. It’s true that I don’t have their voice, haven’t mastered that smooth eloquence that impresses you so much. But when I do open my mouth, I at least know what I’m talking about. We haven’t kept anything back. We let you in on everything.

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Even though (A)I am untrained in speech, yet I am not (B)in knowledge. But (C)we have [a]been thoroughly manifested among you in all things.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 11:6 NU omits been

But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

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I may indeed be untrained as a speaker,(A) but I do have knowledge.(B) We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way.

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