Isaiah 5:21
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 3:7 : 7 Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
- Rom 12:16 : 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.
- 1 Cor 3:18-20 : 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness." 20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."
- Job 11:12 : 12 An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.
- Prov 26:12 : 12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Prov 26:16 : 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.
- John 9:41 : 41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
- Rom 1:22 : 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
- Rom 11:25 : 25 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
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