Proverbs 25:27
What does Proverbs 25:27 mean?
A plain-English look at Proverbs 25:27 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000It is not good to eat much honey; Sofor mento search out their own glory is grievous.
KJV
King James Version · 1611It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901It is not good to eat much honey; Sofor mento search out their own glory is grievous.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour--honour.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty shall be overwhelmed by glory.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is [itself] a weight.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Philippians 2:3
doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;
- 2 Corinthians 12:1
I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
- Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.
- John 5:44
How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?
- Proverbs 25:16
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
- 2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
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