Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
BSB
ASV
It is not good to eat much honey; So for men to search out their own glory is grievous.
KJV
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
So for men ... - A difficult sentence, the text of which is probably defective. The words are not in the original. Many commentators render: so to search into weighty matters is itself a weight, i. e., people soon become satiated with it as with honey. Possibly a warning against an over-curious searching into the mysteries of God’s word or works.
Satiety surfeits (Pr 25:16); so men who are self-glorious find shame. is not glory--"not" is supplied from the first clause, or "is grievous," in which sense a similar word is used (Pr 27:2).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Philippians 2:3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
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Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Through
John 5:44How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
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For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come…
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Proverbs 27:2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—a stranger, and not your own lips.
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For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
