Romans 12:3

By God's grace, Paul warns each believer against pride, urging sober self-assessment according to the faith God has given.

Cross-references · 40

• Gal 6:3If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
• Phil 2:3–8Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
• Prov 26:12Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Rom 12:16Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but enjoy the company of the lowly. Do not be conceited.
• 1 Pet 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Eccl 7:16Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
• Jas 4:6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• 1 Pet 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
• 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
• Prov 16:18–19Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
• Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
• 1 Cor 7:17Regardless, each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches.
• Eph 4:7–13Now to each one of us grace has been given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
• Titus 2:12It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
• Titus 2:2Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.
• Rom 12:6–8We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;
• Matt 18:1–4At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
• 2 Cor 12:7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
• 1 Cor 12:7–11Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
• Titus 2:4In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
• Rom 11:20That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
• Rom 1:5Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
• John 3:34For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
• Eph 3:7–8I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power.
• 1 Cor 4:7–8For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
• Eph 4:16From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
• Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
• Titus 2:6In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
• 1 Cor 3:10By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.
• 1 Tim 2:9Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
• Prov 25:27It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
• 1 Tim 1:14And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Tim 2:15Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.
• Eph 3:4In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,
• Rom 11:25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
• Col 2:13When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
• Col 1:29To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.

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