Proverbs 25:27 - Tree of Life Version

²⁷ It is not good to eat too much honey, or honorable to seek one’s own honor.

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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.

Proverbs 25:27 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 25:16

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

Proverbs 25:2

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

Proverbs 27:2

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

Luke 14:11

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

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?

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.

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.

Philippians 2:3

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