2 Corinthians 12:6

World English Bible (2000)

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.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 11:16 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don't lie.
  • 2 Cor 12:7 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 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.
  • Job 24:25 : 25 If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?"
  • Rom 9:1 : 1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
  • 1 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
  • 2 Cor 1:18 : 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no."
  • 2 Cor 5:13 : 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
  • 2 Cor 10:8-9 : 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, 9 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters. 10 For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Cor 12:1-5
    5 verses
    85%

    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.

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

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

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:30
    81%

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

  • 2 Cor 12:7-11
    5 verses
    80%

    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 11:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

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

  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    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,

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

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    77%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    76%

    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 11:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

    6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
    76%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
    76%

    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.

  • Rom 15:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    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,

  • Gal 6:12-14
    3 verses
    74%

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

    13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

    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 12:13
    74%

    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 7:14
    74%

    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.

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

    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."

  • Gal 6:3
    74%

    3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

  • Rom 3:7
    74%

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

  • 1 Thess 2:6
    74%

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

  • 2 Cor 10:2
    74%

    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 10:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
    73%

    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 11:1
    73%

    1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

    4 so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

  • Phil 3:4
    72%

    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:

  • Eph 3:13
    72%

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

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    72%

    3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

  • 1 Cor 4:3
    72%

    3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

  • Rom 9:1
    71%

    1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

  • 1 Cor 1:31
    71%

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

  • Gal 4:12
    71%

    12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,