8 Bible Verses about Commending Oneself
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For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.)
Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.
for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.
for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have something in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;
For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,
Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?
but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,
but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;
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