Proverbs 27:2

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable for people to seek their own glory.

2 Corinthians 10:18

For it is not the person who commends himself who is approved, but the person the Lord commends.

2 Corinthians 10:12

For we would not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves. But when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

2 Corinthians 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.

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