2 Corinthians 3:1

A Living Letter

3:1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we? ¹ 

2 Corinthians 5:12

5:12 We are not trying to commend ²  ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, ³  so that you may be able to answer those who take pride ⁴  in outward appearance ⁵  and not in what is in the heart.

¹ tn The Greek construction anticipates a negative reply (“No, we do not”) which is indicated in the translation by the ‘tag’ at the end, “do we?”

² tn The present tense of συνιστάνομεν (sunistanomen) has been translated as a conative present.

³ tn Or “to boast about us.”

⁴ tn Or “who boast.”

⁵ tn Or “in what is seen.”