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

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

¹⁸ For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.

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.

¹² For we will not make comparison of ourselves with some of those who say good things about themselves: but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and making comparison of themselves with themselves, are not wise.