Let other people praise you---even strangers; never do it yourself.

You like to receive praise from one another, but you do not try to win praise from the one who alone is God; how, then, can you believe me?

I have to boast, even though it doesn't do any good. But I will now talk about visions and revelations given me by the Lord.

I am acting like a fool---but you have made me do it. You are the ones who ought to show your approval of me. For even if I am nothing, I am in no way inferior to those very special "apostles" of yours.

Don't do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another, always considering others better than yourselves.