Proverbs 25:27 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁷ It is not good to eat too much honey or to seek glory after glory.  ,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey: So for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to seek glory, their own glory, causes suffering and is not glory.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey; So for men to search out their own glory is grievous.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Eating too much honey isn’t good, nor is it appropriate to seek honor.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Just as whoever eats too much honey, it is not good for him, so also whoever is an investigator of what is majestic will be overwhelmed by glory.

Proverbs 25:27 Cross References

Proverbs 25:16

If you find honey,  eat only what you need; otherwise, you’ll get sick from it and vomit.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to investigate a matter.

Proverbs 27:2

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth – a stranger, and not your own lips.

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.’

John 5:44

How can you believe, since you accept glory from one another but don’t seek the glory that comes from the only   God?

2 Corinthians 12:1

Boasting is necessary. It is not profitable, but I will move on to visions  and revelations  of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool; you forced it on me. You ought to have commended me, since I am not in any way inferior to those ‘super-apostles’, even though I am nothing.

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing out of selfish ambition  or conceit,  but in humility  consider others as more important  than yourselves.