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# Connecting Statement:
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As Paul continues to confirm his apostleship, he states specific things that have happened to him since he became a believer.
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# Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as though I were out of my mind.) I am more
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Paul is asking questions the Corinthians might be asking and then answering them to emphasize that he is as much a Jew as the super-apostles are. You should keep the question-and-answer form if possible. Alternate translation: "They say they are servants of Christ—I speak as though I were out of my mind—but I am more" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# as though I were out of my mind
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"as though I were unable to think well"
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# I am more
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You can make clear the understood information. Alternate translation: "I am more a servant of Christ than they are" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-ellipsis]])
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# in harder labor
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"I have worked harder than they have"
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# in more prisons
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"I have been in prison more often"
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# in beatings beyond measure, in facing
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This is an idiom, and is exaggerated to emphasize that he had been beaten many, many times. Alternate translation: "I have been beaten very many times, and I have faced" or "I have been beaten too many times to bother counting, and I have faced" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hyperbole]])
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# in facing many deadly dangers
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"and I have almost died many times"
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