Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
⛓ Read Proverbs 27 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips' is the proverbial backbone of Paul's argument that self-commendation is worthless and only the one 'whom the Lord commends' is approved (10:18; cf. 10:12). The shared self-praise/another-praises antithesis gives strong volume and coherence.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Let another praise you, and not your own mouth' is the proverbial wisdom Paul transgresses self-consciously as he boasts 'after the flesh.' His apology for the foolish boast presupposes exactly this sapiential prohibition against self-praise. The echo is conceptual; flagged low and contested.
Low confidence