Proverbs 25:27 - King James Version - American Edition

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey: So for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ 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)

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey; So for men to search out their own glory is grievous.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Eating too much honey isn’t good, nor is it appropriate to seek honor.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ 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

²⁷ 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.

Proverbs 25:27 Tagairtí Cros

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 glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor 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 God only?

2 Corinthians 12:1

It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I am become a fool in glorying; 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 vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.