2 Corinthians 12:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 2:3 : 3 and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;
  • 2 Cor 11:30 : 30 if to boast it behoveth `me', of the things of my infirmity I will boast;
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me: 10 wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

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

    29Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;

    30if to boast it behoveth `me', of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

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

    6for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

    7and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

    8Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,

    9and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

    10wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

    11I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

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

    2I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago -- whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known -- such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;

    3and I have known such a man -- whether in the body, whether out of the body, I have not known, God hath known, --

    4that he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
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    79%

    16Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.

    17That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;

    18since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    78%

    17I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,

    18for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,

  • 2 Cor 10:16-18
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    16in the `places' beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;

    17and he who is boasting -- in the Lord let him boast;

    18for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;

  • Eph 3:13
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    13wherefore, I ask `you' not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for `it is' good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;

  • 1 Cor 1:31
    74%

    31that, according as it hath been written, `He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.'

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;

  • Gal 6:14
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    14And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    21in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say `it' -- I also am bold.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    72%

    12and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4great `is' my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,

  • 1 Cor 1:29
    72%

    29that no flesh may glory before Him;

  • 1 Cor 15:10
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    10and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that `is' towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that `is' with me;

  • 2 Cor 13:3-4
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    3since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,

    4for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

  • Gal 4:13
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    13and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

  • 2 Cor 10:12-13
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    71%

    12For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,

    13and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us -- to reach even unto you;

  • Phil 3:4
    71%

    4though I also have `cause of' trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;

  • Gal 1:24
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    24and they were glorifying God in me.

  • Rom 15:1
    70%

    1And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

  • Phil 1:30
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    30the same conflict having, such as ye saw in me, and now hear of in me.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2and I beseech `you', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

  • 2 Cor 3:5
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    5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency `is' of God,

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me: