2 Corinthians 12:11

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.

Paul's grasp of gospel truth stood on a level with that of the very foremost apostles. He was in nothing behind the chiefest of them in understanding, though his own estimate of himself remained lowly. Even with that full equality in knowledge, he reckoned himself to be nothing.