Pro 25:27
{It is} not good to eat much honey: so {for men} to search their own glory {is not} glory.
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Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that {cometh} from God only?
{Let} nothing {be done} through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. {I will come: Gr. For I will come}
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. {are...: or, understand it not}
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great {men}: {Put...: Heb. Set not out thy glory}
Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor {yet} of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. {been...: or, used authority}
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think {of himself} more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. {soberly: Gr. to sobriety}
My son, eat thou honey, because {it is} good; and the honeycomb, {which is} sweet to thy taste: {to...: Heb. upon thy palate}