Ecclesiastes 7:16

Don't be self-righteously overly righteous or overly wise, lest you destroy yourself. It matters because self-reliant moral and intellectual pride is spiritually ruinous.

Cross-references · 25

• Rom 12:3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
• Prov 25:16Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
• Col 2:18Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
• 1 Cor 3:18Let 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.
• Jas 3:13–17Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
• Matt 6:1–7“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
• Eccl 12:12Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
• Gen 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
• Col 2:23Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
• Luke 18:12I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
• 1 Cor 3:20And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”
• Prov 23:4Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
• Job 28:28To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”
• Matt 15:2–9“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
• Matt 9:14Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
• Phil 3:6concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
• Matt 23:23–24“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
• 1 Tim 4:3forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
• Job 11:12An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
• Rom 11:25For 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,
• Matt 23:5But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,
• Rom 10:2For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
• Matt 23:29“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
• Matt 23:38Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
• Rev 18:19They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.

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