Proverbs 27:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

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  • Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glory to search out one's own glory.
  • 2 Cor 10:18 : 18 For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 10:12 : 12 For we dare not count ourselves among or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves; but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

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