12 Not that we dare to classify or ^bcompare ourselves with some of those who ^care commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are ^dwithout understanding.

18 For it is ^lnot the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one ^mwhom the Lord commends.

Concern for the Corinthian Church

11 ^pI have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was ^qnot at all inferior to these super-apostles, ^reven though I am nothing.