Proverbs 25:27

Modern English Version

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

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 out.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, 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 whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

John 5:44

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

2 Corinthians 12:1

Doubtless it is not profitable for me to boast. So I will move on 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 I am in no way inferior to the leading apostles, though I am nothing.

Philippians 2:3

Let nothing be done out of strife or conceit, but in humility let each esteem the other better than himself.