2 Corinthians 5:12

Tree of Life Version

For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity for boasting about us, so that you may have something to answer those who boast in outward appearance and not in the heart.

Cross References

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 1:14

just as you understood us in part, so that we are your reason for boasting just as you also are ours in the Day of our Lord Yeshua.

2 Corinthians 10:18

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

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool—you drove me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I am in no way inferior to the super-special emissaries—though 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 have no understanding.

2 Corinthians 10:8

For even if I boast a little more 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 as God’s servants, we are commending ourselves in every way—in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Proverbs 27:2

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

2 Corinthians 10:7

Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident in himself that he belongs to Messiah, let him reconsider that just as he belongs to Messiah, so also do we.

Philippians 1:26

so that your confidence in Messiah Yeshua might overflow because of me through my coming to you again.