² Let another man praise you, And not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey; Nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.

¹⁸ For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

¹¹ I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

¹² For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.