Proverbs 25:27

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Cross References

Proverbs 25:16

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Proverbs 25:2

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

Proverbs 27:2

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.

Luke 14:11

For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

John 5:44

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

2 Corinthians 12:1

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

2 Corinthians 12:11

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

Philippians 2:3

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