Proverbs 25:27 - Revised Standard Version

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey, so be sparing of complimentary words.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty, shall be overwhelmed by glory.

Proverbs 25:27 Cross References

Proverbs 25:16

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you be sated with it and vomit it.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

Proverbs 27:2

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

Luke 14:11

For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

John 5:44

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

2 Corinthians 12:1

I must boast; there is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 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 superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves.