2 Korintus 10:12

Paul’s Mission

10:12 For we would not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves. But when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding. ¹ 

2 Korintus 10:17-18

10:17 But the one who boasts must boast in the Lord. ²  10:18 For it is not the person who commends himself who is approved, but the person the Lord commends.

[10:12]  ¹ tn Or “they are unintelligent.”

[10:17]  ² tn The traditional translation (“let the one who boasts boast in the Lord”) can be understood as merely permissive by the English reader, but the Greek verb καυχάσθω (kaucasqw) is a third person imperative.

[10:17]  sn A quotation from Jer 9:24 (also quoted in 1 Cor 1:31).