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

¹² For we do not dare to classify or to compare ourselves with some who commend themselves, but [they] themselves, [when they] measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, do not understand. ¹³ But we will not boast {beyond limits}, but according to the measure of the assignment that God has assigned to us as a measure to reach even as far as you. ¹⁴ For we are not overextending ourselves, as [if we] had not reached you, because we have reached even as far as you with the gospel of Christ, ¹⁵ not boasting {beyond limits} in the labors of others, but having hope [that as] your faith is growing to be enlarged greatly by you according to our assignment, ¹⁶ so that we may proclaim the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, [and] not boast in the things accomplished in the [area] assigned to someone else. ¹⁷ But "the one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord." ¹⁸ For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but [the one] whom the Lord commends.