8 Bible Verses about Commending Oneself

Though he praises himself during his lifetime—
and people praise you when you do well for yourself—

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—
a stranger, and not your own lips.

For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but the one the Lord commends.

We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in the outward appearance rather than in the heart.

For we don’t dare classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. But in measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves to themselves, they lack understanding.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything:

by great endurance, by afflictions,
by hardship, by difficulties,

Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.