2 Corinthians 5:12

New English Translation

We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who take pride in outward appearance and not in what is in the heart.

Cross References

Proverbs 27:2

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.

2 Corinthians 1:14

just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 10:12

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

2 Corinthians 10:18

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

2 Corinthians 10:7

You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.

2 Corinthians 10:8

For if I boast somewhat more about our authority that the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of doing so.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 3:1

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we?

2 Corinthians 6:4

But as God’s servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,

Philippians 1:26

so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.