Verse 12

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,

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 3:1 : 1 Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?
• Prov 26:12 : 12 Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!
• Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.
• Luke 18:11 : 11 the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;
• 2 Cor 10:18 : 18 for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.
• Rom 15:18 : 18 for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,
• 2 Cor 5:12 : 12 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;
• Job 12:2 : 2 Truly -- ye `are' the people, And with you doth wisdom die.
• Prov 25:27 : 27 The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour -- honour.