Proverbs 27:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 25:27 : 27 ¶ [It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory.
  • 2 Cor 10:18 : 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 ¶ I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
  • 2 Cor 10:12 : 12 ¶ For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

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