Top Verses from Proverbs 25  

Like a muddied spring or a polluted well are the righteous who give way to the wicked. (NIV)

Like a muddied fountain and a polluted spring is a righteous man who yields, falls down, and compromises his integrity before the wicked. (AMP)

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. (KJV)

It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep. (NIV)

It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to seek glory, their own glory, causes suffering and is not glory. (AMP)

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

Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a ruling rightly given. (NIV)

A word fitly spoken and in due season is like apples of gold in settings of silver. [Prov. 15:23; Isa. 50:4.] (AMP)

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. (KJV)

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. (NIV)

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; [Matt. 5:44; Rom. 12:20.] (AMP)

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: (KJV)

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings. (NIV)

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a thing. [Deut. 29:29; Rom. 11:33.] (AMP)

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. (KJV)

Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control. (NIV)

He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls. [Prov. 16:32.] (AMP)

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. (KJV)

Do not exalt yourself in the king's presence, and do not claim a place among his great men; (NIV)

Be not forward (self-assertive and boastfully ambitious) in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men; (AMP)

Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men: (KJV)

These are more proverbs of Solomon, compiled by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah: (NIV)

THESE ARE also the proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied: [I Kings 4:32.] (AMP)

These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. (KJV)

Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land. (NIV)

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far [home] country. (AMP)

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. (KJV)

If you find honey, eat just enough – too much of it, and you will vomit. (NIV)

Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest, being filled with it, you vomit it. (AMP)

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. (KJV)