2 Corinthians 12:5

World English Bible (2000)

On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 2:3 : 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
  • 2 Cor 11:30 : 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. 10 Therefore 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%

    29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?

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

  • 2 Cor 12:6-11
    6 verses
    85%

    6 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

    7 By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

    8 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

    9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

    10 Therefore 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.

    11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 2 Cor 12:1-4
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    1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

    2 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

    3 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows),

    4 how 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
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    16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

    17 That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

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

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

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

  • 2 Cor 10:16-18
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    76%

    16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

    17 But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

    18 For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12 For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

  • Eph 3:13
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    13 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
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    31 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8 For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

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

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

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

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

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29 that no flesh should boast before God.

  • 1 Cor 15:10
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    10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • 2 Cor 13:3-4
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    3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

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

  • Gal 4:13
    71%

    13 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

  • 2 Cor 10:12-13
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    12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

    13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

  • Phil 3:4
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    4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

  • Gal 1:24
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    24 And they glorified God in me.

  • Rom 15:1
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    1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14 For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

  • 2 Cor 3:5
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    5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.