◄ Proverbs 25:27 ►
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Good News Translation
Too much honey is bad for you, and so is trying to win too much praise.

New Revised Standard Version
It is not good to eat much honey, or to seek honor on top of honor.

Contemporary English Version
Don't eat too much honey or always want praise.

New American Bible
To eat too much honey is not good; nor to seek honor after honor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty shall be overwhelmed by glory.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty shall be overwhelmed by glory.

not good

Proverbs 26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that speak sentences.

John 5:44 How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the glory which is from God alone, you do not seek?

2 Corinthians 12:1,11 If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed) but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. . . .

Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:

Context
More Proverbs of Solomon
…26A just man falling down before the wicked, is as a fountain troubled with the foot and a corrupted spring. 27As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty shall be overwhelmed by glory.28As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking.…
Cross References
Luke 14:11
Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Proverbs 27:2
Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.

Proverbs 25:26
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