Proverbs 25:27

A Conservative Version

It is not good to eat much honey, so [for men] to search out their own glory is grievous.

Cross References

John 5:44

How can ye believe, who receive glory from each other, and seek not the glory from the only God?

Proverbs 27:2

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.

Philippians 2:3

in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:1

(Really, to me boasting is not helpful.) For I will come to visions and revelations of Lord.

Proverbs 25:16

Have thou found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.

Luke 14:11

Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.