2 Corinthians 5:12

Weymouth NT

We are not again commending ourselves to your favour, but are furnishing you with a ground of boasting on our behalf, so that you may have a reply ready for those with whom superficial appearances are everything and sincerity of heart counts for nothing.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 1:14

just as some few of you have recognized us as your reason for boasting, even as you will be ours, on the day of Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 10:12

For we have not the `courage' to rank ourselves among, or compare ourselves with, certain persons distinguished by their self-commendation. Yet they are not wise, measuring themselves, as they do, by one another and comparing themselves with one another.

2 Corinthians 10:18

For it is not the man that commends himself who is really approved, but he whom the Lord commends.

2 Corinthians 10:7

Is it outward appearances you look to? If any man is confident as regards himself that he specially belongs to Christ, let him consider again and reflect that just as he belongs to Christ, so also do we.

2 Corinthians 10:8

If, however, I were to boast more loudly of our Apostolic authority, which the Lord has given us that we may build you up, not pull you down, I should have no reason to feel ashamed.

2 Corinthians 12:11

It is foolish of me to write all this, but you have compelled me to do so. Why, you ought to have been my vindicators; for in no respect have I been inferior to these superlatively great Apostles, even though in myself I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 3:1

Do you say that this is self-recommendation once more? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

2 Corinthians 6:4

On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval–by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;

Philippians 1:26

so that, as Christians, you may have additional reason for glorying about me as the result of my being with you again.