2 Corinthians 5:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹² For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² We are not commending ourselves to you again, but we are providing you with an occasion and incentive to be [rightfully] proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who pride themselves on surface appearances [on the virtues they only appear to have], although their heart is devoid of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but speak as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.

Common English Bible

¹² We aren’t trying to commend ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us so that you could answer those who take pride in superficial appearance, and not in what is in the heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² We are not commending ourselves again to you, but rather we are presenting you with an opportunity to glory because of us, when you deal with those who glory in face, and not in heart.

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Proverbs 27:2

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

2 Corinthians 1:14

as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Yeshua.

2 Corinthians 10:12

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

2 Corinthians 10:18

For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

2 Corinthians 10:7

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Messiah's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Messiah's, so also we are Messiah's.

2 Corinthians 10:8

For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

2 Corinthians 12:11

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.

2 Corinthians 3:1

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

2 Corinthians 6:4

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Philippians 1:26

that your rejoicing may abound in Messiah Yeshua in me through my presence with you again.