2 Corinthians 5:12
5:12 We are not trying to commend
ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us,
so that you may be able to answer those who take pride
in outward appearance
and not in what is in the heart.
2 Corinthians 11:4
11:4 For if someone comes and proclaims
another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed,
or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received,
or a different gospel than the one you accepted,
you put up with it well enough!
2 Corinthians 11:18
11:18 Since many
are boasting according to human standards,
I too will boast.
2 Corinthians 11:23
11:23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.
2 Corinthians 12:11
The Signs of an Apostle
12:11 I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 13:3
13:3 since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He
is not weak toward you but is powerful among you.
2 Corinthians 13:1
Paul’s Third Visit to Corinth
13:1 This is the third time I am coming to visit you. By the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter will be established.
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Galatians 1:11-13
Paul’s Vindication of His Apostleship
1:11 Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.
1:12 For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.
1:13 For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.
Galatians 2:5-9
2:5 But
we did not surrender to them
even for a moment,
in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
2:6 But from those who were influential (whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people) – those influential leaders added nothing to my message.
2:7 On the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised just as Peter was to the circumcised
2:8 (for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)
2:9 and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
Galatians 2:1
Confirmation from the Jerusalem Apostles
2:1 Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, taking Titus along too.
Galatians 4:6
4:6 And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls
“
Abba! Father!”