Though he congratulated his soul while he was living --and [people] will praise you when you do well for yourself--

May another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but [the one] whom the Lord commends.

We are not commending ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to boast about us, in order that you may have [an answer] for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

For we do not dare to classify or to compare ourselves with some who commend themselves, but [they] themselves, [when they] measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, do not understand.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or [do we], like some, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?

but commending ourselves as servants of God in every [way], in much endurance, in afflictions, in distresses, in difficulties,

but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.