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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Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
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.
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
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:
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
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.