2 Corinthians 10:12-18 - Paul's Reason For Bragging

¹² I have not indeed the audacity to class myself among, or compare myself with, certain of the self-commenders; yet they are not wise in measuring themselves by one another and in comparing themselves with one another. ¹³ I, however, will not indulge in undue boasting, but will confine it within the limits of the sphere to which God has assigned me?? sphere which reaches even to you. ¹⁴ For I am not overstepping the limits of my authority, as though I reached you not; since I have already come even as far as Corinth to proclaim the gospel of Christ. ¹⁵ I am not "boasting beyond measure in the labors of others," but it is my hope that, as your faith goes on increasing among yourselves, by the enlargement of my appointed limits, ¹⁶ I may carry the gospel to countries beyond you; and not be boasting of work made ready to my hand within another man's limit. ¹⁷ Meanwhile. Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord. ¹⁸ For a man is proved worthy, not by his self-commendation, but when he is commended by the Lord.