Proverbs 25:27

To eat much honey is not good: and to seek out their honor, not honor.

Proverbs 27:2

A stranger shall praise thee, and not thy mouth; a stranger, and not thy lips.

Proverbs 25:16

Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.

John 5:44

How can ye believe, receiving glory from one another, and ye seek not the glory that from God alone?

2 Corinthians 12:1

Indeed it is not profitable to me to boast. For I will come to visions and Revelation of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been mad boasting; ye forced me: for I ought to have been recommended by you: for I was not greatly inferior to the sent, if also I am nothing.

Philippians 2:3

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Not good

General references

Bible References

Not good

Proverbs 25:16
Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.

So

Proverbs 27:2
A stranger shall praise thee, and not thy mouth; a stranger, and not thy lips.
John 5:44
How can ye believe, receiving glory from one another, and ye seek not the glory that from God alone?
2 Corinthians 12:1
Indeed it is not profitable to me to boast. For I will come to visions and Revelation of the Lord.
Philippians 2:3
Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

General references

Proverbs 27:2
A stranger shall praise thee, and not thy mouth; a stranger, and not thy lips.