2 Corinthians 5:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in outward appearance rather than in the heart.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 3:1

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

2 Corinthians 1:14

just as you have partially understood us #– #that we are your reason for pride,  just as you also are ours  in the day of our  Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 10:18

For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but the one the Lord commends.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool; you forced it on me. You ought to have commended me, since I am not in any way inferior to those ‘super-apostles’, even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 10:12

For we don’t dare classify or compare ourselves with some who commend  themselves. But in measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves to themselves,  they lack understanding.

2 Corinthians 10:8

For if I boast a little too much about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up  and not for tearing you down, I will not be put to shame.

2 Corinthians 6:4

Instead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardships, by difficulties,

Proverbs 27:2

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

2 Corinthians 10:7

Look at what is obvious.  If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ,  let him remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.

Philippians 1:26

so that, because of my coming to you again, your boasting  in Christ Jesus  may abound.