2 Corinthians 12:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

2 Corinthians 12:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 9:1
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
1 Corinthians 14:26
How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
2 Corinthians 10:8
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
1 Corinthians 10:14
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-21)

In these verses the apostle addresses himself to the Corinthians two ways:— I. He blames them for what was faulty in them; namely, that they had not stood up in his defence as they ought to have done, and so made it the more needful for him to insist so much on his own vindication. They in manner compelled him to commend himself, who ought to have been commended of them 2 Cor. 12:11. And had they,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. Again--The oldest manuscripts read, “This long time ye think that we are excusing ourselves unto you? (Nay). It is before God (as opposed to ‘unto you’) that we speak in Christ” (2Co 2:17). English Version Greek text was a correction from 2Co 3:1; 5:12.