2 Corinthians 11:18
Since many boast on the score of the flesh, I will do the same.)
1 Corinthians 4:10
We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.
2 Corinthians 10:12-18
I do not venture to class myself or to compare myself with certain exalted individuals! They belong to the class of self-praisers; while I limit myself to my own sphere, I compare myself with my own standard,
2 Corinthians 11:12
No, I intend to go on as I am doing, in order to checkmate those who would fain make out that in the apostolate of which they boast they work on the same terms as I do.
2 Corinthians 11:21-23
I am quite ashamed to say I was not equal to that sort of thing! But let them vaunt as they please, I am equal to them (mind, this is the role of a fool!).
2 Corinthians 12:5-6
Of an experience like that I am prepared to boast, but not of myself personally ??not except as regards my weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 12:9
but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.
2 Corinthians 12:11
Now this is playing the fool! But you forced me to it, instead of coming forward yourselves and vouching for me. That was what I deserved; for, 'nobody' as I am, I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles.'
Philippians 3:3-4
We are the true Circumcision, we who worship God in spirit, we who pride ourselves on Christ Jesus, we who rely upon no outward privilege.
1 Peter 1:24
for All flesh is like the grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass: the grass withers and the flower fades,