Verse 12

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 3:1 : 1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?
• Prov 26:12 : 12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
• Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.
• Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
• 2 Cor 10:18 : 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
• Rom 15:18 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
• 2 Cor 5:12 : 12 We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.
• Job 12:2 : 2 No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.
• Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eat much honey: So [for men] to search out their own glory is grievous.