2 Corinthians 12:12

New Life Version

When I was with you, I proved to you that I was a true missionary. I did powerful works and there were special things to see. These things were done in the strength and power from God.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The signs of an apostle were performed with unfailing endurance among you, including signs and wonders and miracles.

King James Version (1611)
Truely the signes of an Apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signes and wonders, and mightie deeds.

King James Version
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

English Standard Version
The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.

New American Standard Bible
The distinguishing marks of a true apostle were performed among you with all perseverance, by signs, wonders, and miracles.

New Century Version
When I was with you, I patiently did the things that prove I am an apostle—signs, wonders, and miracles.

Amplified Bible
The signs that indicate a genuine apostle were performed among you fully and most patiently—signs and wonders and miracles.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with all perseverance, by signs and wonders and miracles.

Legacy Standard Bible
The signs of a true apostle were worked out among you with all perseverance, by signs and wonders and miracles.

Berean Standard Bible
The true marks of an apostle-signs, wonders, and miracles-were performed among you with great perseverance.

Contemporary English Version
When I was with you, I was patient and worked all the powerful miracles and signs and wonders of a true apostle.

Complete Jewish Bible
The things that prove I am an emissary — signs, wonders and miracles — were done in your presence, despite what I had to endure.

Darby Translation
The signs indeed of the apostle were wrought among you in all endurance, signs, and wonders, and works of power.

Easy-to-Read Version
When I was with you, I patiently did the things that prove I am an apostle—signs, wonders, and miracles.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The signes of an Apostle were wrought among you with all patience, with signes, and wonders, and great workes.

George Lamsa Translation
The miracles which the apostles have wrought I have wrought among you also in all patience, in signs, in wonders, and mighty deeds.

Good News Translation
The many miracles and wonders that prove that I am an apostle were performed among you with much patience.

Lexham English Bible
Indeed, the signs of an apostle have been done among you with all patient endurance, both signs and wonders and deeds of power.

Literal Translation
Truly the signs of the apostle were worked out among you in all patience, in miraculous signs, and in wonders, and by works of power.

American Standard Version
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works.

Bible in Basic English
Truly the signs of an Apostle were done among you in quiet strength, with wonders and acts of power.

Hebrew Names Version
Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

International Standard Version
The signs of an apostle were performed among you with utmost patience - signs, wonders, and works of power.Romans 15:18-19; 1 Corinthians 9:2; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 6:4; 11:6;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
The signs of the apostles I have wrought among you in all patience, and with mighty acts and miracles and with powers.

Murdock Translation
I wrought among you the signs of the legates, with all patience; and in prodigies, and in wonders, and in mighty deeds.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Truely the signes of an Apostle were wrought among you, in all patience, and signes, and wonders, and myghtie deedes.

English Revised Version
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works.

World English Bible
Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you, in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

Weymouth's New Testament
The signs that characterize the true Apostle have been done among you, accompanied by unwearied fortitude, and by tokens and marvels and displays of power.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thouy Y am nouyt, netheles the signes of myn apostilhed ben maad on you, in al pacience, and signes, and grete wondris, and vertues.

Update Bible Version
Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, both by signs and wonders, and mighty works.

Webster's Bible Translation
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

New English Translation
Indeed, the signs of an apostle were performed among you with great perseverance by signs and wonders and powerful deeds.

New King James Version
Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.

New Living Translation
When I was with you, I certainly gave you proof that I am an apostle. For I patiently did many signs and wonders and miracles among you.

New Revised Standard
The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, signs and wonders and mighty works.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The signs, indeed, of an apostle, were wrought out among you, in all endurance, - bothin signs, and wonders, and mighty works:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.

Revised Standard Version
The signs of a true apostle were performed among you in all patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
yet ye tokes of an apostle were wrought amoge you with all pacience: with signes and wonders and myghty dedes.

Young's Literal Translation
The signs, indeed, of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yet are ye tokens of an Apostle wrought amoge you, with all paciece, with signes, & with woders & with mightie dedes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
the marks indeed of an apostle I have shown among you by my extreme patience, by signs, and prodigies, and miracles.

Simplified Cowboy Version
When I was with y'all, I showed y'all how handy I was. I proved I was a cowboy with signs, wonders, and miracles that could only come from God.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ I have been making a fool of myself talking like this. But you made me do it. You should be telling what I have done. Even if I am nothing at all, I am not less important than those false missionaries of yours. ¹² When I was with you, I proved to you that I was a true missionary. I did powerful works and there were special things to see. These things were done in the strength and power from God. ¹³ What makes you feel less important than the other churches? Is it because I did not let you give me food and clothing? Forgive me for this wrong! ¹⁴ This is the third time I am ready to come to you. I want nothing from you. I want you, not your money. You are my children. Children should not have to help care for their parents. Parents should help their children. ¹⁵ I am glad to give anything I have, even myself, to help you. When I love you more, it looks as if you love me less. ¹⁶ It is true that I was not a heavy load to you. But some say I set a trap for you. ¹⁷ How could I have done that? Did I get anything from you through the men I sent to you? ¹⁸ I asked Titus and the other Christian brother to visit you. Did Titus get anything from you? Did we not do things that showed we had the same desires and followed the same plan? ¹⁹ It may look to you as if we had been trying to make everything look right for ourselves all this time. God knows and so does Christ that all this is done to help you. ²⁰ I am afraid that when I visit you I will not find you as I would like you to be. And you will not find me as you would like me to be. I am afraid I will find you fighting and jealous and angry and arguing and talking about each other and thinking of yourselves as being too important and making trouble.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Corinthians 4:2, 2 Corinthians 6:4-10, 2 Corinthians 11:4, 2 Corinthians 11:6, Romans 15:18, Romans 15:19, 1 Corinthians 1:5-7, 1 Corinthians 9:2, 1 Corinthians 14:18

Reciprocal: Acts 5:12 - by Acts 21:19 - by 1 Corinthians 1:1 - an 1 Corinthians 1:6 - was 1 Corinthians 9:1 - I not an 2 Corinthians 11:5 - I was not 2 Corinthians 11:23 - I am 2 Corinthians 12:11 - for in 2 Corinthians 13:3 - which Galatians 3:5 - worketh

Cross-References

Genesis 12:8
Then he went from there to the mountain east of Bethel. He put up his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

Genesis 12:10
Now there was no food in the land. So Abram went south to Egypt to stay there, because it was very hard to live in the land with no food.

Genesis 20:11
Abraham said, "I did it because I thought there was no fear of God in this place. I thought they would kill me because of my wife.

Genesis 26:7
When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister." He was afraid to say, "She is my wife," because he thought to himself, "The men of this place might kill me because of Rebekah, for she is beautiful."

1 Samuel 27:1
David said to himself, "Some day Saul will kill me. There is nothing better for me than to run to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will become tired of looking for me any more in the land of Israel. And I will get away from him."

Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man brings a trap, but he who trusts in the Lord will be honored.

Matthew 10:28
Do not be afraid of them who kill the body. They are not able to kill the soul. But fear Him Who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you,.... Not only the doctrine which he preached, the power that attended it, and the success it met with among them, were clear signs and evident proofs of his being sent by Christ; not only they themselves, who were converted under his ministry, were testimonials and seals of his apostleship, but also the many other wonderful works done by him confirmed the same, and showed him to be an apostle, and that he was not a whit behind, but equal to the chiefest of them: nor does he refer them to signs that were wrought by him, among others, and in other places, which were many; but to those which they themselves were witnesses of, and therefore might and ought to have spoken of them in defence of him; and in order to stop the mouths of the false apostles, a particular enumeration of these signs follows:

in all patience; it is one sign, and what is here mentioned in the first place of an apostle and minister of Christ, that he patiently bears all injuries and indignities, reproaches, persecutions, and all manner of afflictions, for Christ's sake and the Gospel's; and this the apostle did; and had he not been sent by Christ, it is not reasonable to imagine that he would have exposed himself to so many evils and dangers; or would have bore with so much patience the ill usage of men, and particularly the unkindness and ingratitude he met with at Corinth; but he took all patiently, having their good and the glory of Christ at heart:

in signs and wonders, and mighty deeds; meaning preternatural and miraculous performances; such as raising the dead, healing the sick, cleansing lepers, casting out devils, speaking with divers tongues, and the like, which were confirming evidences of apostleship; so

נסין וגבורין, "wonders and powers", or "mighty deeds", are mentioned together by the Jews i, as the same things.

i Zohar in Exod. fol. 96. 2. & 97. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Truly the signs of an apostle - Such miracles as the acknowledged apostles worked. Such “signs” or evidences that they were divinely commissioned; see the Mark 16:17 note; Acts 2:22 note; Romans 15:19 note.

Were wrought among you - That is, by me; see the note, 1 Corinthians 9:2.

In all patience - I performed those works notwithstanding the opposition which I met with. I patiently persevered in furnishing the evidence of my divine commission. There was a succession of miracles demonstrating that I was from God, notwithstanding the unreasonable opposition which I met with, until I convinced you that I was called to the office of an apostle.

In signs and wonders - In working miracles; compare note, Acts 2:22. What these miracles at Corinth were, we are not distinctly informed. They probably, however, were similar to those performed in other places, in healing the sick, etc.; the most benevolent as it was one of the most decisive proofs of the divine power.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Corinthians 12:12. The signs of an apostle were wrought among you — Though I have been reputed as nothing, I have given the fullest proof of my Divine mission by various signs, wonders, and miracles, and by that patience which I have manifested towards you: though I had power from God to inflict punishment on the transgressors, I have in every case forborne to do it. Is the man nothing who wrought such miracles among you?