2 Corinthians 12:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 5 But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls; although loving you more, I be loved less.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Should I desire to boast, I shall not be a witless braggart, for I shall be speaking the truth. But I abstain [from it] so that no one may form a higher estimate of me than [is justified by] what he sees in me or hears from me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me to be, or heareth from me.

Common English Bible

⁶ If I did want to brag, I wouldn’t make a fool of myself because I’d tell the truth. I’m holding back from bragging so that no one will give me any more credit than what anyone sees or hears about me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For even though I am willing to glory, I will not be foolish. But I will speak the truth. Yet I will do so sparingly, lest anyone may consider me to be anything more than what he sees in me, or anything more than what he hears from me.

2 Corinthians 12:6 Cross References

Job 24:25

Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.

Romans 9:1

For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I come; and Sara shall have a son.

1 Corinthians 3:5

4 If any man's work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

2 Corinthians 1:18

And I wrote this same to you; that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow, from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2 Corinthians 11:16

5 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea.

2 Corinthians 11:31

And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me.

2 Corinthians 12:11

0 For I fear lest perhaps when I come I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

2 Corinthians 12:7

6 But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught you by guile.

2 Corinthians 5:13

And we helping do exhort you, that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

2 Corinthians 7:14

That as in all things you abound in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all carefulness; moreover also in your charity towards us, so in this grace also you may abound.