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2 Corinthians 5 12
For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.
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John 7:24
Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
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2 Corinthians 11 23
Are they servants of Christ?( I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
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1 Corinthians 14 37
If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
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1 Corinthians 9 1
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
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1 Corinthians 3 23
and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
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Galatians 3:29
If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
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1John 4:6
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1 Corinthians 1 12
Now I mean this, that each one of you says,“ I follow Paul,”“ I follow Apollos,”“ I follow Cephas,” and,“ I follow Christ.”
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2 Corinthians 10 1
Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
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Luke 16:15
He said to them,“ You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
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2 Corinthians 13 3
seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.
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1 Samuel 16 7
But Yahweh said to Samuel,“ Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
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Romans 2:28-29
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
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Matthew 23:5
But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,
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2 Corinthians 11 18
Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
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Galatians 1:11-13
But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
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Galatians 2:5-9
to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.But from those who were reputed to be important— whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man— they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
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2 Corinthians 11 4
For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different“ good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
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1 Corinthians 15 23
But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.
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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 in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.