2 Corinthians 10:12

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 3:1 : 1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
  • Prov 26:12 : 12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
  • Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
  • 2 Cor 10:18 : 18 For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
  • Rom 15:18 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
  • 2 Cor 5:12 : 12 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.
  • Job 12:2 : 2 "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
  • Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.

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  • 2 Cor 10:13-18
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    87%

    13But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

    14For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

    15not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

    16so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

    17But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

    18For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

  • 2 Cor 5:12-13
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    12For 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.

    13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

  • 2 Cor 10:11
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    11Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-8
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    7Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.

    8For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

  • 1 Cor 4:6-7
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    6Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

    7For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

  • 1 Cor 11:31
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    31For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.

  • Gal 6:3-4
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    3For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

    4But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

    6For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
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    16I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

    17That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

    18Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

  • 2 Cor 3:1
    73%

    1Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 3:5
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    5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

  • 1 Cor 10:22
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    22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

  • Rom 12:3
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    3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

  • 1 Cor 4:3
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    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

  • Gal 5:26
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    26Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

  • Rom 12:16
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    16Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.

  • 2 Cor 9:4
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    4so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

  • Phil 2:3
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    3doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.

  • 1 Cor 10:15
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    15I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

  • 1 Cor 2:13
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    13Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

  • 2 Cor 1:12
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    12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

  • Rom 14:12
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    12So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

  • 1 Cor 8:8
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    8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.