2 Corinthians 5:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.

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  • 2 Cor 3:1 : 1 Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you?
  • 2 Cor 1:14 : 14 Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
  • 2 Cor 11:12-16 : 12 But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are. 13 For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ. 14 And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light. 15 So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works. 16 I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.
  • 2 Cor 12:1-9 : 1 As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven. 3 And I have knowledge of such a man (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), 4 How he was taken up into Paradise, and words came to his ears which may not be said, and which man is not able to say. 5 On account of such a one I will have glory: for myself I will take no glory, but only in my feeble body. 6 For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am. 7 And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain. 8 And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me. 9 And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.
  • Gal 6:12-14 : 12 Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ. 13 Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh. 14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.
  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 But in everything making it clear that we are the servants of God, in quiet strength, in troubles, in need, in sorrow,
  • 2 Cor 10:8 : 8 For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:
  • 2 Cor 10:12 : 12 For we will not make comparison of ourselves with some of those who say good things about themselves: but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and making comparison of themselves with themselves, are not wise.
  • 2 Cor 10:18 : 18 For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.
  • Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

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    13 For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.

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    12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

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    11 Let those who say this keep in mind that, what we are in word by letters when we are away, so will we be in act when we are present.

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    1 Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you?

    2 You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

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    4 But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.

    5 For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

    6 Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

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    5 For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.

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    19 It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

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    7 Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.

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    15 Not taking credit to ourselves for what is not our business, that is, for the work of others; but having hope that, with the growth of your faith, we may get the credit for an increase which is the effect of our work,

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    17 But whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

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    2 And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.

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    5 On account of such a one I will have glory: for myself I will take no glory, but only in my feeble body.

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    12 But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.

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    2 Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.

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    12 So that glory may be given to the name of our Lord Jesus through you, and you may have glory in him, by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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    20 And so that no man might be able to say anything against us in the business of this giving which has been put into our hands:

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    14 For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.

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    17 For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

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    2 Let your hearts be open to us: we have done no man wrong, no man has been damaged by us, we have made no profit out of any man,

    3 It is not with the purpose of judging you that I say this: for I have said before that you are in our hearts for life and death together.

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    5 Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

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    10 We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

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    5 Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;

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    9 For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.

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    6 My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

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    3 Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;

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    7 (For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)

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    5 For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

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    1 As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

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    14 Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.