Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

Are not wise

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Bible References

We dare not

2 Corinthians 3:1
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Unless we need, as some men, commendatory letters to you or commendatory from you?
2 Corinthians 5:12
For we are not commending ourselves again to you, but giving you an opportunity of boasting about us, so that ye may have for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.
Job 12:2
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey, so [for men] to search out their own glory is grievous.
Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Luke 18:11
Having stood by himself, the Pharisee prayed these things: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, predatory, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
Romans 15:18
For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work,

Are not wise

Proverbs 26:12
See thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.

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Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.