12 (A)We are not commending ourselves to you again but (B)giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.

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12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again,(A) but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us,(B) so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.

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But (A)I am sending[a] the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, (B)as I said you would be.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:3 Or I have sent

But I am sending the brothers(A) in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.(B)

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