2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
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2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
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Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
Philippians 2:3
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
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Luke 14:23
“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
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1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
Galatians 6:3
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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2 Corinthians 3:1
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
2 Corinthians 3:5
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
2 Corinthians 12:5
On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 12:7
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
2 Corinthians 12:8
Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
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2 Corinthians 11:24
Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
2 Corinthians 11:25
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
2 Corinthians 11:26
I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 11:28
Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
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1 Corinthians 9:5
Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
2 Corinthians 5:13
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
1 Thessalonians 2:6
nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
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1 Timothy 1:14
The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
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