2 Corinthians 5:12

English Majority Text Version

For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give to you an opportunity of boasting on our behalf, so that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 1:14

just as also you have understood us in part, that we are your boasting, as indeed you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 10:12

For we dare not to class ourselves or to compare ourselves with those who commend themselves, but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, do not understand.

2 Corinthians 10:18

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

2 Corinthians 10:7

Do you look at things as they appear? If anyone has persuaded himself that he is Christ's, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he is Christ's, even so we are Christ's.

2 Corinthians 10:8

For even if I should boast somewhat more concerning our authority, which the Lord gave us for edification and not for your destruction, I will not be ashamed,

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me! For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing have I been inferior to the super apostles, though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 3:1

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or letters of recommendation from you?

2 Corinthians 6:4

but in everything commending ourselves as ministers of God: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses,

Philippians 1:26

that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my coming again to you.