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 6:3For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
• Phil 2:3–8doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
• Prov 26:12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Rom 12:16Be 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 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Eccl 7:16Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• Jas 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion 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. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
• 1 Cor 7:17Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
• Eph 4:7–13But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
• Titus 2:12instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
• Titus 2:2that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:
• Rom 12:6–8Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
• Matt 18:1–4In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”
• 2 Cor 12:7By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
• 1 Cor 12:7–11But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.
• Titus 2:4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• Rom 11:20True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;
• Rom 1:5through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• John 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
• Eph 3:7–8of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
• 1 Cor 4:7–8For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
• Eph 4:16from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
• Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
• Titus 2:6Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;
• 1 Cor 3:10According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
• 1 Tim 2:9In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
• Prov 25:27It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
• 1 Tim 1:14The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Tim 2:15but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
• Eph 3:4by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;
• 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,
• Col 2:13You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
• Col 1:29for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

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