2 Corinthians 5:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you an opportunity to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast in outward appearance and not in the heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² We are not commending ourselves to you again, but we are providing you with an occasion and incentive to be [rightfully] proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who pride themselves on surface appearances [on the virtues they only appear to have], although their heart is devoid of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but speak as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.

Common English Bible

¹² We aren’t trying to commend ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us so that you could answer those who take pride in superficial appearance, and not in what is in the heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² We are not commending ourselves again to you, but rather we are presenting you with an opportunity to glory because of us, when you deal with those who glory in face, and not in heart.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² We commend not ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to glory in our behalf; that you may have somewhat to answer them who glory in face, and not in heart.

2 Corinthians 5:12 Cross References

Proverbs 27:2

Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

2 Corinthians 1:14

as you have already understood us in part—that on the day of the Lord Jesus we are your boast even as you are our boast.

2 Corinthians 10:12

We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they do not show good sense.

2 Corinthians 10:18

For it is not those who commend themselves that are approved but those whom the Lord commends.

2 Corinthians 10:7

Look at what is before your eyes. If you are confident that you belong to Christ, remind yourself of this, that just as you belong to Christ, so also do we.

2 Corinthians 10:8

Now, even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of it.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 3:1

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?

2 Corinthians 6:4

but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: in great endurance, afflictions, hardships, calamities,

Philippians 1:26

so that, by my presence again with you, your boast might abound in Christ Jesus because of me.