2 Corinthians 1:12 - Revised Standard Version

¹² For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² It is a reason for pride and exultation to which our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world [generally] and especially toward you, with devout and pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God (the unmerited favor and merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, and keeps, strengthens, and increases them in Christian virtues).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Common English Bible

¹² We have conducted ourselves with godly sincerity and pure motives in the world, and especially toward you. This is why we are confident, and our conscience confirms this. We didn’t act with human wisdom but we relied on the grace of God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, which is found in simplicity of heart and in sincerity toward God. And it is not with worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that we have conversed with this world, and more abundantly toward you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² For our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

2 Corinthians 1:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 22:22

For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Job 13:15

Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope; yet I will defend my ways to his face.

Isaiah 38:3

and said, “Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in thy sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Acts 23:1

And Paul, looking intently at the council, said, “Brethren, I have lived before God in all good conscience up to this day.”

Acts 24:16

So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward God and toward men.

Romans 9:1

I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit,

1 Corinthians 1:17

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

1 Corinthians 12:8

To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

1 Corinthians 2:13

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 4:4

I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Corinthians 1:17

Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans like a worldly man, ready to say Yes and No at once?

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word; but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:2

We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 8:8

I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.

Galatians 6:4

But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

Ephesians 6:14

Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Philippians 1:10

so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

1 Thessalonians 2:10

You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our behavior to you believers;

1 Timothy 1:5

whereas the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith.

Titus 2:7

Show yourself in all respects a model of good deeds, and in your teaching show integrity, gravity,

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.

James 4:6

But he gives more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Joshua 24:14

“Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

1 Peter 3:16

and keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are abused, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

1 Peter 3:21

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,