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12 Not that we dare to classify or (A)compare ourselves with some of those who (B)are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are (C)without understanding.

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

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27 It is (A)not good to eat much honey,
    nor is it glorious to (B)seek one's own glory.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:27 The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain

Concern for the Corinthian Church

11 (A)I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was (B)not at all inferior to these super-apostles, (C)even though I am nothing.

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