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

¹² for I dare not rank or compare my self with some who vaunt themselves: but they making their self-conceit the only standard whereby to judge of themselves, show their want of judgment. ¹³ I will not boast of any thing done without my province, but confine myself within that line by which God has mark'd out my bounds, and in which you are included. ¹⁴ for I do not stretch beyond my limits to take you in; since in preaching the gospel of Christ, we are advanced even to you. ¹⁵ I don't assume to myself the credit of other men's labours in another province, but hope, that when your faith is increased, the bounds now prescribed will be enlarged by you yet farther; ¹⁶ so that I may preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not assume the credit of things ready prepared to my hand, in another man's province. ¹⁷ but he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. ¹⁸ for not he that commendeth himself, but he whom the Lord commendeth, is the approved.