2 Corinthians 12:6

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 11:16 : 16 I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.
  • 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not.
  • 2 Cor 12:7 : 7 And 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.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I 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.
  • Job 24:25 : 25 And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?
  • Rom 9:1 : 1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.
  • 1 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.
  • 2 Cor 1:18 : 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay.
  • 2 Cor 5:13 : 13 For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.
  • 2 Cor 10:8-9 : 8 For 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: 9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters. 10 For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 12:1-5
    5 verses
    85%

    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.

    5On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in [my] weaknesses.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:30
    81%

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

  • 2 Cor 12:7-11
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    80%

    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 11:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself] .

    10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    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:

    9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    77%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    76%

    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 11:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

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

    6But though [I be] rude in speech, yet [am I] not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made [this] manifest unto you in all things.

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
    76%

    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.

  • Rom 15:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    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,

  • Gal 6:12-14
    3 verses
    74%

    12As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

    13For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

    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 12:13
    74%

    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 7:14
    74%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 10:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Gal 6:3
    74%

    3For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

  • Rom 3:7
    74%

    7But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

  • 1 Thess 2:6
    74%

    6nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
    74%

    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 10:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
    73%

    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 11:1
    73%

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

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:

    4lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

  • Phil 3:4
    72%

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

  • Eph 3:13
    72%

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

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    72%

    3giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

  • 1 Cor 4:3
    72%

    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

  • Rom 9:1
    71%

    1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

  • 1 Cor 1:31
    71%

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

  • Gal 4:12
    71%

    12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong: