Devine Scripture

Proverbs 25:27

Proverbs chapter 25 · verse 27 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

It is not good to eat much honey; Sofor mento search out their own glory is grievous.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

It is not good to eat much honey; Sofor mento search out their own glory is grievous.

Context

v.26Asa troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, So isa righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.

v.27This passage

v.28He whose spirit is without restraint Islikea city that is broken down and without walls.

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.