Proverbs 25:27

American Standard Version (1901)

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 one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?

Proverbs 27:2

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

Philippians 2:3

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

2 Corinthians 12:11

I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:1

I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Proverbs 25:16

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Luke 14:11

For every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.