If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?*
2 Corinthians 12:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Should I desire to boast, I shall not be a witless braggart, for I shall be speaking the truth. But I abstain [from it] so that no one may form a higher estimate of me than [is justified by] what he sees in me or hears from me. American Standard Version (1901) For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me to be, or heareth from me. Common English Bible If I did want to brag, I wouldn’t make a fool of myself because I’d tell the truth. I’m holding back from bragging so that no one will give me any more credit than what anyone sees or hears about me. Catholic Public Domain Version For even though I am willing to glory, I will not be foolish. But I will speak the truth. Yet I will do so sparingly, lest anyone may consider me to be anything more than what he sees in me, or anything more than what he hears from me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me. |
If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?*
I tell the truth in Messiah. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
Who then is Apollos, and who is Sha'ul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
The God and Father of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don't lie.
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best emissaries, though I am nothing.
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Hasatan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.