Proverbs 25:27

King James 2000

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search out their own glory is not glory.

Cross References

Proverbs 25:16

Have you found honey? eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it, and vomit it.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.

Proverbs 27:2

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

Luke 14:11

For whosoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

John 5:44

How can you believe, who receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from God only?

2 Corinthians 12:1

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

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I be nothing.

Philippians 2:3

Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.