2 Corinthians 5:12 We are not again recommending ourselves to you (or: making ourselves stand together for you), but rather, continue giving you a starting point and an occasion (a base of operations and an incentive) from the effect of boasting over and being proud of us other MSS: you – to the end that you folks may constantly possess (have and hold) a position; a response; a defense toward those continuously boasting in a face (in presentation; in personal appearance; in a surface facade) and not in the heart.

JMNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² We are not again recommending ourselves to you (or: making ourselves stand together for you), but rather, continue giving you a starting point and an occasion (a base of operations and an incentive) from the effect of boasting over and being proud of us [other MSS: you] – to the end that you folks may constantly possess (have and hold) [a position; a response; a defense] toward those continuously boasting in a face (in presentation; in personal appearance; in a surface facade) and not in [the] heart.