"I magnify mine office ... I laboured more abundantly than they all ... As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia ... for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles"

– Romans 11.13; 1 Corinthians 15.10; 2 Corinthians 11.10; 2 Corinthians 12.11.

Paul's epistles are awash with self-references and half of his 37 uses of the word 'apostle' are a reference to himself.