2 Corinthians 7:14

7:14 For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, ¹  but just as everything we said to you was true, ²  so our boasting to Titus about you ³  has proved true as well.

2 Corinthians 12:6

12:6 For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling ⁴  the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard ⁵  me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,

2 Corinthians 12:2

12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.

2 Corinthians 1:12

Paul Defends His Changed Plans

1:12 For our reason for confidence ⁶  is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives ⁷  and sincerity which are from God ⁸  – not by human wisdom ⁹  but by the grace of God – we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more ¹⁰  toward you.

¹ tn Grk “I have not been put to shame”; the words “by you” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

² tn Grk “just as we spoke everything to you in truth.”

³ tn The words “about you” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

⁴ tn Or “speaking.”

⁵ tn Or “may think of.”

⁶ tn Or “for boasting.”

⁷ tc Two viable variants exist at this place in the text: ἁγιότητι (Jagiothti, “holiness”) vs. ἁπλότητι (Japlothti, “pure motives”). A confusion of letters could well have produced the variant (TCGNT 507): In uncial script the words would have been written agiothti and aplothti. This, however, does not explain which reading created the other. Overall ἁπλότητι, though largely a Western-Byzantine reading (א² D F G Ï lat sy), is better suited to the context; it is also a Pauline word while ἁγιότης (Jagioth") is not. It also best explains the rise of the other variants, πραότητι (praothti, “gentleness”) and {σπλάγχνοις} (splancnoi", “compassion”). On the other hand, the external evidence in favor of ἁγιότητι is extremely strong (Ì⁴⁶ א* A B C K P Ψ 0121 0243 33 81 1739 1881 al co). This diversity of mss provides excellent evidence for authenticity, but because of the internal evidence listed above, ἁπλότητι is to be preferred, albeit only slightly.

⁸ tn Grk “pure motives and sincerity of God.”

⁹ tn Or “not by worldly wisdom.”

¹⁰ tn Or “and especially.”