Proverbs 25:27

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:2 : 2 ¶ Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
  • John 5:44 : 44 ‹How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that› [cometh] ‹from God only?›
  • 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 ¶ It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 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.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
  • Prov 25:16 : 16 ¶ Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

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