KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 25:27–28
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Proverbs 25:27
27It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
27 It is not good to eat much hony: so for men to search their owne glory, is not glory.
Proverbs 25:28
28He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
28*Hee that hath no rule ouer his owne spirit, is like a citie that is broken downe, and without walles.
- Chap. 16.32.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 25:27
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A great quantity or degree; abundant in amount.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To seek carefully, examine, explore, or inquire in order to find or know.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Splendour, honour, praise, majesty, or a ground of rejoicing or boasting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Proverbs 25:28
An established standard or direction; authority or government; as a verb, to govern, direct, or exercise authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Structures enclosing, dividing, or defending a place.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 27
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Open the full verse study44How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
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Open the full verse study2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
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Open the full verse study3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
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Open the full verse study1IT is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study11I 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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Open the full verse study16Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
From verse 28
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Open the full verse study32He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
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Open the full verse study24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
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Open the full verse study5Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
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Open the full verse study3And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
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Open the full verse study30Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness?
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Open the full verse study17Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
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