Proverbs 25:27

English Standard Version 2016

It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.

Cross References

John 5:44

How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Proverbs 27:2

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

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:1

I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Proverbs 25:16

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.