Proverbs 27:2
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
A stranger, and not your own lips.
Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey,
Nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.
2 Corinthians 10:18
For it is not he who commends and praises himself who is approved [by God], but it is the one whom the Lord commends and praises.
2 Corinthians 10:12
We do not have the audacity to put ourselves in the same class or compare ourselves with some who [supply testimonials to] commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they lack wisdom and behave like fools.
2 Corinthians 12:11
Now I have become foolish; you have forced me [by questioning my apostleship]. Actually I should have been commended by you [instead of being treated disdainfully], for I was not inferior to those
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