If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, or else, having too much, you will vomit it.
Proverbs 25:27 - New Revised Standard Version It is not good to eat much honey, or to seek honor on top of honor. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 It is not good to eat much honey: So for men to search their own glory is not glory. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to seek glory, their own glory, causes suffering and is not glory. American Standard Version (1901) It is not good to eat much honey; So for men to search out their own glory is grievous. Common English Bible Eating too much honey isn’t good, nor is it appropriate to seek honor. Catholic Public Domain Version Just as whoever eats too much honey, it is not good for him, so also whoever is an investigator of what is majestic will be overwhelmed by glory. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty, shall be overwhelmed by glory. |
If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, or else, having too much, you will vomit it.
It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth— a stranger, and not your own lips.
For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
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?
It is necessary to boast; nothing is to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
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.
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.