Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some, commendatory epistles to you or from you?

and I desire that I may not be bold when present, with that confidence which I design to use against some who speak of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For if I should even boast some of our authority which the Lord gave for your edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed.

For we dare not judge or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but they, measuring themselves with themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise.