Proverbs 25:27

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

It is not good to eat much honey, so be sparing of complimentary words.

Cross References

Proverbs 25:16

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you be sated with it and vomit it.

Proverbs 25:2

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

Proverbs 27:2

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

Luke 14:11

For every one who 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

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

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves.