2 Corinthians 1:12
And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
Note Literally fleshly
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- our rejoicing
- Job 13:15; Job 23:10–12; Job 27:5, 6; Job 31:1–40; Psalm 7:3–5; Psalm 44:17–21; Isaiah 38:3; Acts 24:16; Romans 9:1; 1 Corinthians 4:4; Galatians 6:4; 1 Timothy 1:5, 19, 20; Hebrews 13:18; 1 Peter 3:16, 21; 1 John 3:19–22
- simplicity
- 2 Corinthians 11:3; Romans 16:18, 19
- godly
- 2 Corinthians 2:17; 2 Corinthians 8:8; Joshua 24:14; 1 Corinthians 5:8; Ephesians 6:14; Philippians 1:10; Titus 2:7
- not
- 2 Corinthians 1:17; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 10:2–4; 2 Corinthians 12:15–19; 1 Corinthians 2:4, 5, 13; 1 Corinthians 15:10; James 3:13–18; James 4:6