Verse 16

But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

Referenced Verses

  • 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 Psalm] 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.