2 Corinthians 5:12

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For not again do we recommend ourselves to you, but giving you occasion for boasting over us, that ye might have for them boasting in face, and not in heart.

Cross References

Proverbs 27:2

A stranger shall praise thee, and not thy mouth; a stranger, and not thy lips.

2 Corinthians 1:14

As also ye observed us by part, that we are your boast, as also ye ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 10:12

For we dare not appear or join ourselves to certain of them recommending themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and joining themselves to themselves, do not understand.

2 Corinthians 10:18

For not he recommending himself, this is acceptable, but whom the Lord recommends.

2 Corinthians 10:7

See ye things according to the face? If any has persuaded himself to be of Christ, let him reckon this again of himself, that, as he of Christ, so we also of Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:8

For if I also boast something more abundantly of our power, which the Lord gave us for the building up, and not for your taking down, I shall not be ashamed:

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been mad boasting; ye forced me: for I ought to have been recommended by you: for I was not greatly inferior to the sent, if also I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 3:1

Begin we again to recommend ourselves or need we not, as some; recommendatory epistles to you, or recommendatory from you?

2 Corinthians 6:4

But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities,

Philippians 1:26

That your boasting may abound in Jesus Christ in me, for my coming again to you.