Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Proverbs 27:2 in English Standard Version "Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips." Pr 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory. 2Co 10:12 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding. 2Co 10:18 For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends. 2Co 12:11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.