Proverbs 25:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
  • 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;
  • Prov 25:16 : 16 If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

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    16If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

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  • Prov 27:1-2
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    1Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

    2Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

  • Prov 24:13
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    13My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:

  • Jer 9:23
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    23This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:

  • Prov 25:2
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    2It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.

  • Prov 25:28
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    28He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Prov 29:23
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    23A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

  • 2 Cor 10:17
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    17But whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

  • Eccl 7:16
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    16Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?

  • Prov 19:10-11
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    10Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.

    11A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.

  • Prov 25:6
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    6Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great:

  • Prov 25:26
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    26Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.

  • 1 Cor 5:6
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    6This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

  • Ps 36:2
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    2For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

  • Prov 20:14
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    14A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29So that no flesh might have glory before God.

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    12Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

  • Prov 23:3-4
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    3Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.

    4Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.

  • Gal 6:4
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    4But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.

  • Prov 20:3
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    3It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

  • Eccl 5:10
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    10When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

  • 1 Cor 10:24
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    24Let a man give attention not only to what is good for himself, but equally to his neighbour's good.

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    8Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

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    26Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.

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    18Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

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    26The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.

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    7All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

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    17For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

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    18The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is true and there is no evil in him.

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    7Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.

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    25It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them.

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    12Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.

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    2Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

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    5A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.

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    10For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.

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    2A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

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    5To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.