2 Corinthians 5:12
"For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart."
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- 2 Corinthians 3:1
"Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?"
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 1:14
"As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus."
Read in chapter → - Galatians 6:12
"As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ."
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 10:18
"For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth."
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 11:12
"But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 27:2
"Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips."
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 10:8
"For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:"
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 6:4
"But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,"
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 12:1
"It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord."
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 10:12
"For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise."
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