12 We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves.(A) When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.

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

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27 It is not good to eat too much honey,(A)
    nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.(B)

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Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians

11 I have made a fool of myself,(A) but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,”[a](B) even though I am nothing.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 12:11 Or the most eminent apostles

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