2 Corinthians 1:12 (WEB)
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
Fathers and councils · 13
Gregory the Great
“Paul also, a leader of good men, says, Our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience (2 Cor. i. 12).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
““For our glory this is,” saith the Apostle, “the testimony of our conscience.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 12.
Read the whole comment“Hear the Apostle Paul exulting in his closet: “For this is our glory, the testimony of our conscience.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 12.
Read the whole comment“Let us come back to conscience, of which the same saith, “But let each prove his own work, and then he shall have glorying in himself and not in another.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 12.
Read the whole comment“…man;” and in another place, “If I were pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ;” and again, “For our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 12
Read the whole comment“And again, “For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 12.
Read the whole comment“Yet what does this profit him, seeing the Apostle says, “Our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 12.
Read the whole comment“Whence the Apostle says, “Our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 12.
Read the whole comment“Whence the apostle says, “For this is our glory, the testimony of our conscience.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 12.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“And I know too how the divine Apostle often appealed to the testimony of his conscience, for “our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience” and again “I say the truth in Christ I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 12
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Jerome
“But let us, she continued, listen to the exhortation of the apostle, “Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and sincerity…by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 12.
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Basil the Great
“And it is not from this source alone that our proofs of the natural communion are derived, but from the fact that He is moreover said to be “of God;” not indeed in the sense in which “all things are of God,” but in the sense of proceeding out of God, not by generation, like the Son, but as Breath of His mouth.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 12.
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Clement of Alexandria
““For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of a good conscience, that in holiness and sincerity we know God” by this inconsiderable instance exhibiting the work of love, that “not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 12.
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God V.12 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 4.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 104.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 104.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27 and 1 other place.