10 who delivered us from so great a risk of death, and will deliver us, in whom we have put our hope that he will also deliver us again, 11 while[a] you also join in helping on our behalf[b] by prayer, so that thanks may be given on our behalf[c] by many persons for this gracious gift given to us through the help of many.

Paul’s Clear Conscience

12 For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness[d] and purity of motive from God, not[e] in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:11 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“join in helping”)
  2. 2 Corinthians 1:11 Literally “on behalf of us”
  3. 2 Corinthians 1:11 Literally “on behalf of us”
  4. 2 Corinthians 1:12 Some manuscripts have “sincerity”
  5. 2 Corinthians 1:12 Some manuscripts have “and not”