James 4:16
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
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- 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
- Jas 3:14 : 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
- Isa 47:10 : 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
- Ps 52:1 : 1 To the chief Musician, Maschil, A alm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
- Ps 52:7 : 7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
- Prov 25:14 : 14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
- Prov 27:1 : 1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
- Isa 47:7-8 : 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
- 1 Cor 4:7-8 : 7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
- Rev 18:7 : 7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
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6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
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15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
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4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
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16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
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14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
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17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
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26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
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14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
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13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
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4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
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15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
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7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
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16 Rejoice evermore.
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3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
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1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
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21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
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17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
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8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
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13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
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4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
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6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, thugh breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
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5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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20 For ye are our glory and joy.
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1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
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6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
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4 An high look, and a oud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
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19 For your obedience is come abad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
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9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
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5 Whoso mocketh the poor reoacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
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4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
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13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
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5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
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17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
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9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
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6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
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8 And not rather, (as we be slandeusly reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
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11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
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18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the ot, but the ot thee.