8 Bible Verses about Commending Oneself
Most Relevant Verses
For, though, his own self - while he lived, he used to bless, And they will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,
Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.
For, not he that commendeth himself, he, is approved, but he whom, the Lord, doth commend.
Not again, ourselves, do we commend unto you, but as though an occasion we were giving unto you - something to boast of, in our behalf; that ye may have something suited unto them who, in appearance, are boasting, and not in heart.
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!
Are we to begin again, ourselves, to commend? or have we need, like some, of commendatory letters unto you, or from you?
But, in everything, commending ourselves as God's ministers, - in much endurance, in tribulations, in necessities, in straits,
But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, - but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves unto every conscience of men, in the sight of God.