² Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.

²⁷ The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour -- honour.

¹⁸ for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.

¹¹ I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

¹² For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,