Proverbs 25:27
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27 It is not good to eat much honey
or to seek honor on top of honor.(A)
John 5:44
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44 How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God?[a](A)
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- 5.44 Other manuscripts read the Only One
Proverbs 27:2
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2 Let another praise you and not your own mouth,
a stranger and not your own lips.(A)
Philippians 2:3
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3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.(A)
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2 Corinthians 12:11
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Paul’s Concern for the Corinthian Church
11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.(A)
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2 Corinthians 12:1
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Paul’s Visions and Revelations
12 It is necessary to boast; nothing is to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
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Proverbs 25:16
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16 If you have found honey, eat only enough for you,
lest, having too much, you vomit it up.(A)
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