2 Corinthians 4:2
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2 Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking(A) in deceit or distorting God’s message,(B) but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.(C)
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2 Corinthians 5:12
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12 We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in the outward appearance[a] rather than in the heart.
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- 2 Corinthians 5:12 Lit in face
2 Corinthians 6:4
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4 But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything:
by great endurance, by afflictions,
by hardship, by difficulties,
2 Corinthians 10:12
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12 For we don’t dare classify or compare ourselves with some who commend(A) themselves. But in measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves to themselves,(B) they lack understanding.(C)
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2 Corinthians 10:17-18
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17 So the one who boasts must boast in the Lord.(A)[a] 18 For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but the one the Lord commends.(B)
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2 Corinthians 12:11
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Signs of an Apostle
11 I have become a fool; you forced it on me. I should have been endorsed by you, since I am not in any way inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.(A)
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