Proverbs 25:27

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Proverbs 25:16

Have you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Proverbs 25:2

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

Proverbs 27:2

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

Luke 14:11

For whoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

John 5:44

How can you believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from God only?

2 Corinthians 12:1

It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I am become a fool in glorying; you have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very most chief apostles, though I be nothing.

Philippians 2:3

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.