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
Honey having found, eat to suffice thee, lest thou loathe it, and vomit it forth.
So
Proverbs 27:2
Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.
John 5:44
How can, ye, believe, - Glory from one another, receiving; and, the glory which is from the only God, are not seeking?
2 Corinthians 12:1
To be boasting, is needful, - it is not, indeed, profitable, yet will I come to visions and revelations of the Lord: -
Philippians 2:3
Nothing by way of faction, nothing by way of vain-glory, - but, in lowliness of mind, accounting, one another, superior to yourselves, -
General references
Proverbs 27:2
Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.