2 Corinthians 5:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.

2 Corinthians 1:14

as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 10:12

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

2 Corinthians 10:18

For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

2 Corinthians 10:7

Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.

2 Corinthians 10:8

For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

2 Corinthians 12:11

I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 3:1

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?

2 Corinthians 6:4

but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

Philippians 1:26

that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.