2 Corinthians 5:12
For we are not again commending ourselves to you, but giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer those who glory in appearance and not in heart.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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2 Corinthians 1:14as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 6:4but as God's ministers, commending ourselves in everything, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
2 Corinthians 10:12For we venture not to reckon ourselves among, or to compare ourselves with, some of those who commend themselves; but they, measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise.
2 Corinthians 11:12But what I do, and will do, is that I may cut off the occasion of those who desire an occasion, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become foolish; ye compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind these overmuch apostles, though I am nothing.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 5:2-12
The Believer's Prospect beyond Death. ( a. d. 57.) 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up… Read the whole commentary →