8 Bible Verses about Commending Oneself

Though while he lived he blessed his soul -- and men 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.

For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

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

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

But we 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 to every man's conscience in the sight of God.