2 Corinthians 5:12

New American Bible - revised edition

We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you an opportunity to boast of us, so that you may have something to say to those who boast of external appearance rather than of the heart.

Cross References

Proverbs 27:2

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

2 Corinthians 1:14

as you have come to understand us partially, that we are your boast as you also are ours, on the day of [our] Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 10:12

Not that we dare to class or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.

2 Corinthians 10:18

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

2 Corinthians 10:7

Look at what confronts you. Whoever is confident of belonging to Christ should consider that as he belongs to Christ, so do we.

2 Corinthians 10:8

And even if I should boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I shall not be put to shame.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been foolish. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I am in no way inferior to these “superapostles,” even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 3:1

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

2 Corinthians 6:4

on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints,

Philippians 1:26

so that your boasting in Christ Jesus may abound on account of me when I come to you again. Steadfastness in Faith.