2 Corinthians 10:18
For it is not the man who keeps on recommending himself who is really approved, but it is the man whom the Lord recommends.
2 Corinthians 10:12
Indeed, I do not dare to count or compare myself with certain men who are always recommending themselves. But they do not show good sense, because they do continue measuring themselves with one another and comparing themselves with one another.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have made a fool of myself, but you have forced me to do it, for I am the man who ought to have been constantly approved by you. For I am not a single bit inferior to your surpassingly superior apostles, though really I am "nobody."
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