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12 It is a reason for pride and exultation to which our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world [generally] and especially toward you, with devout and pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God (the unmerited favor and [a]merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, and keeps, strengthens, and increases them in Christian virtues).

13 For we write you nothing else but simply what you can read and understand [there is no double meaning to what we say], and I hope that you will become thoroughly acquainted [with [b]divine things] and know and understand [them] accurately and well to the end,

14 [Just] as you have [already] partially known and understood and acknowledged us and recognized that you can [honestly] be proud of us, even as we [can be proud] of you on the day of our Lord Jesus.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:12 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
  2. 2 Corinthians 1:13 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.

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