8 Bible Verses about Commending Oneself
Most Relevant Verses
Though while he lived he blessed his soul (and men praise thee, when thou do well for thyself),
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.
For he who commends himself, that man is not approved, but whom the Lord commends.
For we are not commending ourselves again to you, but giving you an opportunity of boasting about us, so that ye may have for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.
For we dare not classify or compare ourselves to some of those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves to themselves, do not understand.
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Unless we need, as some men, commendatory letters to you or commendatory from you?
but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions,
But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.