Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable for people to seek their own glory.

Proverbs 27:2

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.

Proverbs 25:16

When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.

John 5:44

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God?

2 Corinthians 12:1

It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those "super-apostles," even though I am nothing.

Philippians 2:3

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

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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
When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.

So

Proverbs 27:2
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.
John 5:44
How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God?
2 Corinthians 12:1
It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
Philippians 2:3
Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

General references

Proverbs 27:2
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.

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