2 Corinthians 5:12

A Conservative Version

For we are not commending ourselves again to you, but giving you an opportunity of boasting about us, so that ye may have for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 3:1

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Unless we need, as some men, commendatory letters to you or commendatory from you?

2 Corinthians 1:14

as also ye did acknowledge us in part, because we are your boast, just as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 10:18

For he who commends himself, that man is not approved, but whom the Lord commends.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 10:12

For we dare not classify or compare ourselves to some of those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves to themselves, do not understand.

2 Corinthians 10:8

For even if I also should boast somewhat more abundantly about our authority (which the Lord gave us for building up, and not for tearing you down), I will not be shamed,

2 Corinthians 6:4

but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions,

Proverbs 27:2

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.

2 Corinthians 10:7

Do ye look at things according to appearance. If any man has convinced himself to be of Christ, let him consider this again of himself, that, as he is of Christ, so also are we of Christ.

Philippians 1:26

So that your pride may abound in Christ Jesus in me because of my presence with you again.