Verse 16

Do not be overly righteous, nor make yourself overly wise; why should you destroy yourself?

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  • Rom 12:3 : 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to each one the measure of faith.
  • Luke 18:12 : 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.
  • Prov 25:16 : 16 Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, lest you be filled with it and vomit.
  • Phil 3:6 : 6 Regarding zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness in the law, blameless.
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no one beguile you of your reward in a false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
  • Col 2:23 : 23 These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
  • Jas 3:13-17 : 13 Who is wise and endowed with knowledge among you? Let him show by good conduct his works with the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envy and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
  • Rev 18:19 : 19 And they threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea were made rich by her wealth! for in one hour she is made desolate.
  • Eccl 12:12 : 12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
  • Matt 6:1-7 : 1 Be careful not to do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them; otherwise, you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 2 Therefore, when you do your charitable deeds, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. 3 But when you do your charitable deeds, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 that your charitable deeds may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 5 And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, enter into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 7 But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathens do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
  • Matt 9:14 : 14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but your disciples do not fast?
  • Matt 15:2-9 : 2 Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. 3 But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die. 5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; 6 And does not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, 8 This people draws near to me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.
  • Matt 23:5 : 5 But all their works they do to be seen by men: they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments,
  • Matt 23:23-24 : 23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. 24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.
  • Matt 23:29 : 29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
  • Matt 23:38 : 38 See, your house is left to you desolate.
  • Rom 10:2 : 2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
  • 1 Cor 3:20 : 20 And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of the fruit and ate, and gave also to her husband with her; and he ate.
  • Job 11:12 : 12 For hollow man would be wise, though man is born like a wild donkey's colt.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And to man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'
  • Prov 23:4 : 4 Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own wisdom.