Proverbs 25:27

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

To eat much honey is not good: and to seek out their honor, not honor.

Cross References

John 5:44

How can ye believe, receiving glory from one another, and ye seek not the glory that from God alone?

Proverbs 27:2

A stranger shall praise thee, and not thy mouth; a stranger, and not thy lips.

Philippians 2:3

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been mad boasting; ye forced me: for I ought to have been recommended by you: for I was not greatly inferior to the sent, if also I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:1

Indeed it is not profitable to me to boast. For I will come to visions and Revelation of the Lord.

Proverbs 25:16

Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.

Luke 14:11

For whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be exalted.

Proverbs 25:2

The glory of God to conceal the word: and the glory of kings to search the word.