TSK · 2 Corinthians 5:12

as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.