2 Corinthians 5:12
We do not again laud ourselves to you; but we give you occasion to glory in us, to them who glory in appearance and not in heart.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
13For if we are extravagant, it is for God: and if we are discreet, it is for you.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:14as ye have also partially acknowledged that we are your rejoicing, as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
2 Corinthians 6:4But we, in all things, would show ourselves to be the ministers of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessity, in distresses,
2 Corinthians 10:12For we dare not value, or compare ourselves, with those who vaunt: but they, because they compare themselves with themselves, are not wise.
2 Corinthians 11:12But what I do, that also I will do; that I may cut off occasion, from them who seek occasion: so that in the thing wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
2 Corinthians 12:11Behold, I have become foolish in my glorying, for ye compelled me. For ye ought to bear witness for me; because I was inferior in nothing to those legates who most excel, although I was 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 →