2 Corinthians 1:12

Paul's boast is the testimony of a clear conscience: he conducted himself with godly sincerity and grace, not worldly cunning. His integrity, not human cleverness, marks his ministry.

Cross-references · 37

• 2 Cor 2:17For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
• 1 Cor 2:13Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
• Jas 3:13–18Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
• 1 Th 2:10You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
• Acts 23:1Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”
• 1 Pet 3:21This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you — not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• Job 23:10–12But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.
• Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
• Acts 24:16Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
• 2 Cor 8:8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
• 2 Cor 4:2But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• Heb 13:18Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
• 2 Cor 12:15–19I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
• Phil 1:10so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;
• 1 Cor 2:4–5My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
• Job 27:5–6Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
• 1 Cor 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• 1 Pet 3:16having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
• Eph 6:14Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
• 1 Cor 4:4For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
• 2 Cor 11:3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• 1 Jn 3:19–22And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
• Job 31:1–40“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
• 2 Cor 1:17When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
• Ps 7:3–5Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
• 1 Tim 1:5but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;
• Rom 16:18–19For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
• Gal 6:4But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
• Ps 44:17–21All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.
• Rom 9:1I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
• Isa 38:3and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.
• 1 Tim 1:19–20holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;
• Jas 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Titus 2:7in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
• Josh 24:14“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.
• 2 Cor 10:2–4Yes, 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.

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