Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
2 Corinthians 12:11 - Tree of Life Version 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now I have been [speaking like] a fool! But you forced me to it, for I ought to have been [saved the necessity and] commended by you. For I have not fallen short one bit or proved myself at all inferior to those superlative [false] apostles [of yours], even if I am nothing (a nobody). American Standard Version (1901) I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing. Common English Bible I’ve become a fool! You made me do it. Actually, I should have been commended by you. I’m not inferior to the super-apostles in any way, even though I’m a nonentity. Catholic Public Domain Version I have become foolish; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you. For I have been nothing less than those who claim to be above the measure of Apostles, even though I am nothing. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I am become foolish: you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: for I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing. |
Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
So you too, when you’ve done everything you are commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves. We have done only what we were supposed to do.’”
If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but have not love, I am nothing.
whether Paul or Apollos or Kefa, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come. All are yours,
If we are suffering hardship, it is for your encouragement and salvation. Or if we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement, which produces in you the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.
I wish that you would put up with a little foolishness from me, but indeed you are putting up with me.
For I consider myself in no way inferior to the “super special” emissaries.
Truly the signs of an emissary were worked out among you, with patient endurance, by signs and wonders and mighty miracles.
For if I should want to boast, I would not be foolish—for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no one may think more of me than what he sees in me or hears from me—
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he is fooling himself.
This favor was given to me, the very least of His kedoshim, to proclaim to the Gentiles the endless riches of the Messiah