Proverbs 25:16

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 23:8

The morsel which you have eaten, you will vomit up, and lose your pleasant words.

Proverbs 25:17

Let your foot seldom be in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary of you and so hate you.

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to seek their own glory is not glorious.

Ecclesiastes 7:16

Do not be excessively righteous, and do not be extremely wise. Why ruin yourself?

Isaiah 7:15

Curds and honey he shall eat at the time that he knows enough to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Isaiah 7:22

and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he shall eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land shall eat curds and honey.

Luke 21:34

“Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts become burdened by excessiveness and drunkenness and anxieties of life, and that Day comes on you unexpectedly.

Ephesians 5:18

Do not be drunk with wine, for that is reckless living. But be filled with the Spirit.