Bible Cross References
we
2 Corinthians 3:1
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or [letters] of recommendation from you?
2 Corinthians 6:4
but in everything commending ourselves as ministers of God: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses,
2 Corinthians 10:8
For even if I should boast somewhat more concerning our authority, which the Lord gave us for edification and not for your destruction, I will not be ashamed,
2 Corinthians 10:12
For we dare not to class ourselves or to compare ourselves with those who commend themselves, but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, do not understand.
2 Corinthians 10:18
For not he who commends himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commends.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me! For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing have I been inferior to the super apostles, though I am nothing.
Proverbs 27:2
Let your neighbor, and not your own mouth, praise you; a stranger, and not your own lips.
give
2 Corinthians 1:14
just as also you have understood us in part, that we are your boasting, as indeed you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 11:12-16
12
But what I am doing, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those who desire an opportunity, that in what they boast they may be found just as we [are].
13
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
14
And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
15
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
16
Again I say, let no one think me a fool. Otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little.
2 Corinthians 12:1-9
1
It is indeed not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord:
2
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago--whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows--such a one was caught up to the third heaven.
3
And I know such a man--whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows--
4
that he was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable words, which it is not permitted for a man to utter.
5
Concerning such a one I will boast, but concerning myself I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
6
For if I should desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak [the] truth. But I spare [you], lest anyone consider me to be beyond what he sees me [to be] or hears something from me.
7
And lest I exalt myself above measure by the excellence of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, that it might beat me, lest I exalt myself above measure.
8
Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
9
And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
appearance
Galatians 6:12-14
12
As many as wish to make a good showing in the flesh, these compel you to get circumcised, only so that they should not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
13
For not even those who are circumcised keep the law themselves, but they wish you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
14
But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.