2 Corinthians 8:7 Now as you excel in everything — in faith, speech, knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love for us — excel also in this act of grace.

2 Corinthians 5:17-19 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

2 Corinthians 3:5 It is not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.

2 Corinthians 2:17 For we do not market the word of God for profit like so many. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God. (CSB)

1 Corinthians 13:4 “Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant, . . .