2 Corinthians 12:6

WEB

⁶For 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.

KJV

⁶For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

BSB

⁶Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,

FBV

⁶I wouldn't be foolish if I wanted to boast, because I'd be telling the truth. But I won't boast, so that nobody will think more of me than what they see me doing or hear me saying.

Extra References

2 Corinthians 11:16

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

2 Corinthians 11:31

³¹The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.

2 Corinthians 12:11

¹¹I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

⁸For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed, ⁹that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters. ¹⁰For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

1 Corinthians 3:9-10

⁹For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

¹⁰According 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.

Job 24:25

²⁵If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

2 Corinthians 5:13

¹³For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

1 Corinthians 3:5

⁵Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

2 Corinthians 12:7

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

2 Corinthians 1:18

¹⁸But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”