Proverbs 25:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

It is not good to eat much honey or to seek honor on top of honor.

Cross References

John 5:44

How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God?

Proverbs 27:2

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

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:1

It is necessary to boast; nothing is to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Proverbs 25:16

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest, having too much, you vomit it up.

Luke 14:11

For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.