Even though he blesses himself while he is alive. (People will praise you when you do well for yourself.)

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

It is not he that commends himself that is approved. It is the one whom Jehovah commends. (Proverbs 29:26)

We are not again commending ourselves to you. But we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us. That way you may have an answer for those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves. But they measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves. They are without understanding.

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

In everything we commend ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

We have renounced the hidden things of shame. And we do not walk in craftiness and deceit. We do not adulterate the word of God. But by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.