Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
It is not good to eat much hony: so for men to search their owne glory, is not glory.
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11I 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.
11I am become a foole in glorying, ye haue compelled me. For I ought to haue beene commended of you: for in nothing am I behinde the very chiefest Apostles, though I be nothing.
- Proverbs 25:16Rank 6 from verse 27
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Proverbs 25:27
Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.
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To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.
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A naturally sweet food found in combs or deposits.
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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.
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Sense 1: To seek carefully, examine, explore, or inquire in order to find or know. Sense 2: A careful examination or inquiry made to find or know.
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Sense 1: Splendour, honour, praise, majesty, or a ground of rejoicing or boasting. Sense 2: To boast, exult, take pride, or rejoice in a person or thing.
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26A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
26A righteous man falling downe before the wicked, is as a troubled fountaine, aud a corrupt spring.
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.
Selected passage28He 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.