Proverbs 25:27

Word of Yahweh

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own honour is not honour.

Cross References

Proverbs 25:16

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the honour of Elohim to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

Proverbs 27:2

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

Luke 14:11

For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

John 5:44

How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from Elohim only?

2 Corinthians 12:1

It is not profitable for me doubtless to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of Yahweh.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I am become a fool in boasting; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

Philippians 2:3

Let nothing be done through strife or vain boasting; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.