Proverbs 25:27
27It is anot good to eat much honey,nor is it glorious to bseek one’s own glory. ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain
2 Corinthians 10:12
12Not that we dare to classify or dcompare ourselves with some of those who eare commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are fwithout understanding.2 Corinthians 10:18
18For it is gnot the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one hwhom the Lord commends.2 Corinthians 12:11
Concern for the Corinthian Church
11 iI have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was jnot at all inferior to these super-apostles, keven though I am nothing.
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