2 Corinthians 12:5

American Standard Version (1901)

On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in [my] weaknesses.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 2:3 : 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
  • 2 Cor 11:30 : 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
    2 verses
    89%

    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?

    30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.

  • 2 Cor 12:6-11
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    85%

    6For 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.

    7And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch.

    8Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

    9And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

    10Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

    11I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 2 Cor 12:1-4
    4 verses
    82%

    1I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

    2I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.

    3And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth),

    4how that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
    3 verses
    79%

    16I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.

    17That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.

    18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

  • Rom 15:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

    18For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • 2 Cor 10:16-18
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    76%

    16so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

    17But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

    18For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
    76%

    12We 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.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
    76%

    5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.

  • Eph 3:13
    74%

    13Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    74%

    15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
    74%

    31that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 10:8
    74%

    8For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
    72%

    13For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • 2 Cor 7:4
    72%

    4Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
    72%

    29that no flesh should glory before God.

  • 1 Cor 15:10
    72%

    10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • 2 Cor 13:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you:

    4for he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you.

  • Gal 4:13
    71%

    13but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:

  • 2 Cor 10:12-13
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    71%

    12For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

    13But we will not glory beyond [our] measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.

  • Phil 3:4
    71%

    4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

  • Gal 1:24
    70%

    24and they glorified God in me.

  • Rom 15:1
    70%

    1Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • Phil 1:30
    70%

    30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
    70%

    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
    70%

    14For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
    70%

    6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

  • 2 Cor 3:5
    70%

    5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

  • 1 Cor 4:10
    69%

    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
    69%

    1Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.