2 Corinthians 5:12 - Tree of Life Version

¹² 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.

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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.

2 Corinthians 5:12 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 27:2

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

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 10:12

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 10:18

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

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.

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 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 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 6:4

But as God’s servants, we are commending ourselves in every way—in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Philippians 1:26

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