Proverbs 25:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Proverbs 25:27 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
John 5:44
How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
Philippians 2:3
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Proverbs 25:16
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
2 Corinthians 12:11
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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 27)

I. Two things we must be graciously dead to:—1. To the pleasures of sense, for it is not good to eat much honey; though it pleases the taste, and, if eaten with moderation, is very wholesome, yet, if eaten to excess, it becomes nauseous, creates bile, and is the occasion of many diseases. It is true of all the delights of the children of men that they will surfeit, but never satisfy, and they are…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 27)

27. 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).