Isaiah 5:21
Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 3:7 : 7 Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:
- Rom 12:16 : 16 Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.
- 1 Cor 3:18-20 : 18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs: 20 And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.
- Job 11:12 : 12 And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.
- Prov 26:12 : 12 Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
- Prov 26:16 : 16 The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
- John 9:41 : 41 Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.
- Rom 1:22 : 22 Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,
- Rom 11:25 : 25 For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
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