If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you be sated with it and vomit it.
Proverbs 25:27 - Revised Standard Version It is not good to eat much honey, so be sparing of complimentary words. 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, lest you be sated with it and 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 every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
I must boast; there is nothing 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, 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.
Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves.