Paul's Boast of His Apostolic Calling.
Paul deprecates the necessity of boasting:
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2 Corinthians 11:16-20
16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receiveb me, that I may boast myself a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.