Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or [letters] of recommendation from you?

For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give to you an opportunity of boasting on our behalf, so that you may have [an answer] for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

So then you [alone] are men, and wisdom shall die with you?

[It is] not good to eat much honey, but it is right to honor venerable sayings.

Let your neighbor, and not your own mouth, praise you; a stranger, and not your own lips.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men--swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out through me, in word and deed, for the obedience of [the] Gentiles--

I have seen a man who seemed to himself to be wise; but a fool had more hope than he.