Discovery Box2 Corinthians 3:1 
Context3:1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we? 1
2 Corinthians 4:2
Context4:2 But we have rejected 2 shameful hidden deeds, 3 not behaving 4 with deceptiveness 5 or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.
2 Corinthians 5:12
Context5:12 We are not trying to commend 6 ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, 7 so that you may be able to answer those who take pride 8 in outward appearance 9 and not in what is in the heart.
1 tn The Greek construction anticipates a negative reply (“No, we do not”) which is indicated in the translation by the ‘tag’ at the end, “do we?”
2 tn L&N 13.156; the word can also mean “to assert opposition to,” thus here “we have denounced” (L&N 33.220).
3 tn Grk “the hidden things [deeds] of shame”; here αἰσχύνης (aiscunh") has been translated as an attributive genitive.
4 tn Or “not conducting ourselves”; Grk “not walking” (a common NT idiom for conduct, way of life, or behavior).
5 tn Or “craftiness.”
6 tn The present tense of συνιστάνομεν (sunistanomen) has been translated as a conative present.
7 tn Or “to boast about us.”
8 tn Or “who boast.”
9 tn Or “in what is seen.”
