¹² For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

¹⁸ For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

¹¹ I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.