Proverbs 25:27

Tree of Life Version

It is not good to eat too much honey, or honorable to seek one’s own honor.

Cross References

John 5:44

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

Proverbs 27:2

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

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing out of selfishness or conceit, but with humility consider others as more important than yourselves,

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool—you drove me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I am in no way inferior to the super-special emissaries—though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:1

I must go on boasting—though it does no good, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Proverbs 25:16

When you find honey, eat just enough, lest you are stuffed and vomit it.

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.