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)

¹⁸ For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but the one the Lord commends.^(A)

Signs of an Apostle

¹¹ I have been a fool; you forced it on me. You ought to have commended me, since I am not in any way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.^(A)