Lexicon :: Strong's G1438 - heautou

Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

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

It is not that we are competent in[fn] ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting deceitfully or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.

For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake.

We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in outward appearance rather than in the heart.

And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

Instead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardships, by difficulties,

So then, dear friends, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, bringing holiness to completion[fn] in the fear of God.

For consider how much diligence this very thing ​— ​this grieving as God wills ​— ​has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us by God’s will.

Look at what is obvious.[fn] If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, let him remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.

For we don’t dare classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. But in measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves to themselves, they lack understanding.

For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we had not reached you, since we have come to you with the gospel of Christ.

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

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you? ​— ​unless you fail the test.[fn]