2 Corinthians 5:12

Legacy Standard Bible

We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an opportunity to boast of us, so that you will have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 3:1

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

2 Corinthians 1:14

just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason for boasting as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 10:18

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

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become foolish; you yourselves compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you, for in no respect was I inferior to the most-eminent apostles, even if I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 10:12

For we do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves, but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

2 Corinthians 10:8

For even if I boast somewhat further 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

but in everything commending ourselves as ministers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in distresses, in hardships,

Proverbs 27:2

Let a stranger praise you, and not your own mouth; A foreigner, and not your own lips.

2 Corinthians 10:7

You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.

Philippians 1:26

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