2 Corinthians 1:12

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

In Context

11And of you who help together by supplication for us (a gift for us from many persons, because of many), so that there may be gratitude about you.

13For we write no other thing to you, but rather what ye read or also acknowledge. And I hope ye will also acknowledge until the end,

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Cross References

Joshua 24:14Now therefore fear LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. And put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye LORD.

Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

Job 27:5Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

Psalms 7:3O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands,

Isaiah 38:3and said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept greatly.

Acts 24:16And in this I fashion myself, having a conscience always nonstumbling before God and men.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 1:8-12

Paul's Sincerity and Affliction. ( a. d. 57.) 7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. 8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 10 Who delivered us from so great a… Read the whole commentary →

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