Proverbs 25:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey or to seek honor on top of honor.

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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 Krydshenvisninger

Proverbs 25:16

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest, having too much, you vomit it up.

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 all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

John 5:44

How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God?

2 Corinthians 12:1

It is necessary to boast; nothing is 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. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.