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12 Oh, don’t worry; we wouldn’t dare say that we are as wonderful as these other men who tell you how important they are! But they are only comparing themselves with each other, using themselves as the standard of measurement. How ignorant!

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Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth—
    a stranger, not your own lips.

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12 There is more hope for fools
    than for people who think they are wise.

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Are we beginning to praise ourselves again? Are we like others, who need to bring you letters of recommendation, or who ask you to write such letters on their behalf? Surely not!

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18 When people commend themselves, it doesn’t count for much. The important thing is for the Lord to commend them.

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11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer[a]: ‘I thank you, God, that I am not like other people—cheaters, sinners, adulterers. I’m certainly not like that tax collector!

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Footnotes

  1. 18:11 Some manuscripts read stood and prayed this prayer to himself.

27 It’s not good to eat too much honey,
    and it’s not good to seek honors for yourself.

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12 Are we commending ourselves to you again? No, we are giving you a reason to be proud of us,[a] so you can answer those who brag about having a spectacular ministry rather than having a sincere heart.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:12 Some manuscripts read proud of yourselves.

18 Yet I dare not boast about anything except what Christ has done through me, bringing the Gentiles to God by my message and by the way I worked among them.

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“You people really know everything, don’t you?
    And when you die, wisdom will die with you!

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