Proverbs 25:27

WEB

²⁷It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

KJV

²⁷It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

BSB

²⁷It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.

FBV

²⁷It's not good to eat too much honey, or to want too much praise.

Extra References

Proverbs 27:2

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

John 5:44

⁴⁴How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Philippians 2:3

³doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

2 Corinthians 12:1

¹It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast, but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:11

¹¹I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

Proverbs 25:16

¹⁶Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.