Verse 2

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own glory.
  • 2 Cor 10:18 : 18 For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become foolish in boasting; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you, because I am in no way inferior to the 'super-apostles,' even though I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 10:12 : 12 We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they lack understanding.