Verse 27
It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
Referenced Verses
- Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
- John 5:44 : 44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
- 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
- 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
- Phil 2:3 : 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
- Prov 25:16 : 16 Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.