Proverbs 25:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glory to search out one's own glory.

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  • Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
  • 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 It is not profitable for me, doubtless, to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vanity; but in humility let each consider others better than themselves.
  • Prov 25:16 : 16 Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, lest you be filled with it and vomit.

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  • Prov 25:16-17
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    16 Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, lest you be filled with it and vomit.

    17 Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and so hate you.

  • Prov 27:1-2
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    73%

    1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

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

  • Prov 24:13
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    13 My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste.

  • Jer 9:23
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    23 Thus says the LORD, 'Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches:

  • Prov 25:2
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    2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; but the honor of kings is to search out a thing.

  • Prov 25:28
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    28 Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7 The full soul loathes honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Prov 29:23
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    23 A man's pride will bring him low; but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

  • 2 Cor 10:17
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    17 But he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

  • Eccl 7:16
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    16 Do not be overly righteous, nor make yourself overly wise; why should you destroy yourself?

  • Prov 19:10-11
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    10 Delight is not fitting for a fool; much less for a servant to rule over princes.

    11 The discretion of a man defers his anger, and it is his glory to overlook a transgression.

  • Prov 25:6
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    6 Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

  • Prov 25:26
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    26 A righteous man who falters before the wicked is like a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring.

  • 1 Cor 5:6
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    6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

  • Ps 36:2
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    2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

  • Prov 20:14
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    14 It is worthless, it is worthless, says the buyer; but when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.

  • Prov 18:12
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    12 Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, and before honor is humility.

  • Prov 23:3-4
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    3 Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

    4 Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own wisdom.

  • Gal 6:4
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    4 But let every man examine his own work, and then he shall have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

  • Prov 20:3
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    3 It is an honor for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be meddling.

  • Eccl 5:10
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    10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with increase; this also is vanity.

  • 1 Cor 10:24
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    24 Let no one seek his own good, but each one the good of others.

  • Prov 25:8
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    8 Do not go forth hastily to contend, lest you know not what to do in the end thereof, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

  • Prov 11:27
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    27 He who diligently seeks good procures favor, but he who seeks evil, it shall come to him.

  • Prov 12:27
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    27 The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, but diligence is a man's precious possession.

  • Prov 28:11-12
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    11 The rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the poor who has understanding searches him out.

    12 When righteous men rejoice, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, a man hides himself.

  • Gal 5:26
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    26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

  • Prov 16:18-19
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    18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

    19 It is better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

  • Prov 16:26
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    26 He who labors, labors for himself, for his mouth craves it of him.

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his appetite is not satisfied.

  • Ps 49:17
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    17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

  • Hab 2:5
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    5 Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither stays at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all people:

  • John 7:18
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    18 He who speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

  • Prov 17:7
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    7 Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, much less lying lips for a prince.

  • Prov 20:25
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    25 It is a snare for a man to devour what is holy, and afterward to reconsider his vows.

  • Prov 26:12
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    12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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    2 Also, for the soul to be without knowledge is not good; and he who hurries with his feet sins.

  • Prov 29:5
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    5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

  • 2 Cor 3:10
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    10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels.

  • Prov 3:35
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    35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the legacy of fools.

  • Prov 28:21
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    21 To show partiality is not good; for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

  • Eccl 6:2
    67%

    2 A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all he desires, yet God does not give him the power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

  • Prov 18:5
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    5 It is not good to show partiality to the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.