"It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory."
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Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
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.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.
It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is [itself] a weight.
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 honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
It is not good to eat much honey; Nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour -- honour.