Proverbs 25:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

Cross References

Proverbs 23:8

The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.

Proverbs 25:17

Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

Ecclesiastes 7:16

Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?

Isaiah 7:15

Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.

Isaiah 7:22

And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.

Luke 21:34

But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

Ephesians 5:18

And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;