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

¹² For we dare not class or compare ourselves with some who do, themselves, commend; but, they, among themselves, measuring, themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without discernment! ¹³ We, however, not as to the things without measure, will boast ourselves, but, according to the measure of the limit which God apportioned unto us, as a measure - to reach as far as even you! ¹⁴ For, not as though we were not reaching unto you, are we over-stretching ourselves, for, as far as even you, were we beforehand in the glad-message of the Christ: ¹⁵ Not, as to the things without measure, boasting ourselves in other men's toils, but having, hope - your faith, growing - among you, to be enlarged, according to our limit for something beyond, - ¹⁶ Unto the regions beyond you, to carry the glad-message: not, within another man's limit, as to the things made ready, to boast ourselves. ¹⁷ He that boasteth, however, in the Lord, let him boast; ¹⁸ For, not he that commendeth himself, he, is approved, but he whom, the Lord, doth commend.