27 It is not good to eat much honey,
Nor is it glory to (A)search out [a]one’s own glory.

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  1. Proverbs 25:27 Lit their

27 It is not good to eat too much honey,(A)
    nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.(B)

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27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

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12 For we do not presume to rank or compare ourselves with [a]some of those who (A)commend themselves; but when they [b]measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they have no understanding.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 10:12 Or any
  2. 2 Corinthians 10:12 I.e., evaluate

12 We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves.(A) When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.

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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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18 For it is not the one who (A)commends himself that is approved, but the one (B)whom the Lord commends.

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18 For it is not the one who commends himself(A) who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.(B)

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18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

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11 I have become (A)foolish; you yourselves compelled me. Actually I should have been commended by you, since I was (B)in no respect inferior to the [a]most eminent apostles, even though (C)I am a nobody.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 12:11 Or super-apostles

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians

11 I have made a fool of myself,(A) but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,”[a](B) even though I am nothing.(C)

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  1. 2 Corinthians 12:11 Or the most eminent apostles

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.

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