2 Corinthians 1:12-14
12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you. 13 For we are not writing any other things to you than what you read or understand. Now I trust you will understand, even to the end 14 (as also you have understood us in part), that we are your boast as you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you. 13 For we are not writing any other things to you than what you read or understand. Now I trust you will understand, even to the end 14 (as also you have understood us in part), that we are your boast as you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Boasting is not in what we believe we accomplish, but doing the right things without complications. It means being sincere as God would have us to be, relying on His grace to both follow Christ and to do as we ought to as His. We boast in what Christ has done in and through us and communicate that clearly to others in the gospel. We need always consider how God teaches each one who is His also, and remind those we minister to what God has already said, not our new ideas or philosophical tales. We boast in Christ in us and others, not in ourselves.
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