Proverbs 27:2

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

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

"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. are...: or, understand it not"

"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."