²⁷ It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

² Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

¹⁶ If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

⁴⁴ How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?

¹ As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

¹¹ I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

³ Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;