Verse 11

I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Jeg har blitt en dåraktig ved å skryte; dere har presset meg: for jeg burde vært anbefalt av dere: for i ingenting er jeg bak de fremste apostlene, selv om jeg ikke er noe.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Jeg har vært en tosk i å skryte; det var dere som tvang meg! For jeg burde ha vært anbefalt av dere; jeg mangler ikke noe i forhold til de mest anerkjente apostlene, selv om jeg ikke er noe.

• Norsk King James

  Jeg har vært en tåpe når jeg har rost meg; dere har presset meg til det: for jeg skulle ha blitt rost av dere; for jeg er ikke dårligere enn de fremste apostlene, selv om jeg ikke er noe.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg har blitt en dåre ved å skryte. Dere tvang meg til det, for dere burde ha rost meg; for jeg er ikke dårligere enn de store apostlene, selv om jeg er ingenting.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Jeg har blitt en dåre ved å rose meg, dere har tvunget meg til det. For jeg skulle ha blitt anbefalt av dere, for i intet står jeg tilbake for de aller ypperste apostler, selv om jeg ikke er noe.

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Jeg har blitt uforstandig ved å rose meg; dere har tvunget meg til det. For jeg burde ha blitt anbefalt av dere, siden jeg ikke står tilbake i noe for de mest fremragende apostlene, selv om jeg ikke er noe i meg selv.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Jeg har blitt en dåre ved å rose meg selv; dere har tvunget meg. For dere burde ha rost meg, for i ingenting står jeg tilbake for de overmektigste apostlene, selv om jeg er ingenting.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Jeg har vist meg som en tåpe i å skryte – dere tvang meg til det; for jeg skulle ha blitt rost av dere, for jeg ligger i ingenting etter selv de fremste apostlene, om enn jeg er ingenting.

• gpt4.5-preview

  Jeg har blitt en dåre ved å rose meg. Dere tvang meg til det; for jeg burde være blitt anbefalt av dere. I ingenting står jeg tilbake for de fremste apostlene, selv om jeg er ingenting.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Jeg har blitt en dåre ved å rose meg. Dere tvang meg til det; for jeg burde være blitt anbefalt av dere. I ingenting står jeg tilbake for de fremste apostlene, selv om jeg er ingenting.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Jeg har blitt en tåpe ved å skryte; dere tvang meg til det. For jeg burde ha vært rost av dere, for jeg er ikke underlegen de såkalte super-apostlene, selv om jeg ingenting er.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I have become foolish in boasting; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you, because I am in no way inferior to the 'super-apostles,' even though I am nothing.

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Jeg har opptrådt som en dåre med å skryte, men dere tvang meg til det. Jeg burde blitt anbefalt av dere, for jeg var ikke underlegen de fremste apostlene i noe, selv om jeg er ingenting.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg er bleven en Daare, idet jeg roser mig. I tvang mig dertil; thi jeg burde prises af eder; thi jeg er ikke ringere end de saare høie Apostler, alligevel jeg er Intet.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Jeg er blitt en dåre ved å rose meg selv; dere har tvunget meg til det. Jeg burde blitt anbefalt av dere, for i ingenting er jeg mindre enn de fremste apostlene, selv om jeg ikke er noe.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Jeg har blitt tåpelig ved å skryte. Dere tvang meg til det, for dere burde ha anbefalt meg. For i ingenting er jeg underlegen de aller beste apostlene, selv om jeg er ingenting.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Jeg har blitt en dåre ved å skryte; dere tvang meg til det, for jeg skulle ha blitt rost av dere. For jeg sto ikke tilbake for de aller fremste apostlene, selv om jeg er ingenting.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Jeg har blitt en tosk; dere tvang meg, for jeg burde ha blitt hyllet av dere. For i ingenting er jeg mindre enn de fremste apostlene, selv om jeg er ingenting.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Jeg er blitt tvunget av dere til å bli tåpelig, selv om det var riktig at ros burde ha kommet fra dere: for på ingen måte var jeg mindre enn de fremste apostlene, selv om jeg er ingenting.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  I am made a fole in bostynge my silfe. Ye have copelled me: I ought to have bene comeded of you. For in nothinge was I inferior vnto ye chefe apostels Though I be nothynge

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I am become a fole i boastinge my selfe: Ye haue copelled me. For I oughte to be comended of you, in so moch as I am in nothinge inferior to ye hye Apostles. Though I be nothinge,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I am become a foole in gloriyng. Ye haue compelled me: for I ought to haue ben commended of you. For nothyng was I inferiour vnto the chiefe Apostles, though I be nothyng,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ 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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The Signs of an Apostle I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those“super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 11:5 : 5 For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.
• 2 Cor 11:1 : 1 I wish you would bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
• 2 Cor 11:16-17 : 16 I say again, let no one think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as if foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
• 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 For though I would desire to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But now I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above that which he sees me to be, or that he hears of me.
• 2 Cor 12:12 : 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were performed among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
• Gal 2:6-9 : 6 But from those who seemed to be something (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me: God accepts no man's person), for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me: 7 But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised was committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter; 8 (For He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked mightily in me toward the Gentiles:) 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10 They only desired that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do. 11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before certain men came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews?
• Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
• Luke 17:10 : 10 So likewise you, when you have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done what was our duty to do.
• 1 Cor 3:4-7 : 4 For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal? 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth. 7 So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the growth.
• 1 Cor 3:22 : 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
• 1 Cor 15:8-9 : 8 And last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• 2 Cor 1:6 : 6 And if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.