And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?
2 Corinthians 12:6 - King 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. 更多版本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. English Standard Version 2016 though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. |
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
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.
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.