Verse 27
It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable for people to seek their own glory.
Referenced Verses
- Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.
- John 5:44 : 44 How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?
- 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
- 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 The Signs of an Apostle I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those“super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
- Phil 2:3 : 3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.
- Prov 25:16 : 16 You have found honey–eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.