Verse 27

The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour -- honour.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.
  • John 5:44 : 44 how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that `is' from God alone ye seek not?
  • 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --
  • Prov 25:16 : 16 Honey thou hast found -- eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated `with' it, and hast vomited it.