Proverbs 25:27

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.

Cross References

John 5:44

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Proverbs 27:2

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

Philippians 2:3

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best emissaries, though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:1

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Proverbs 25:16

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will 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.