It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.*
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best emissaries, though I am nothing.
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;