CONCEIT

Passages on this topic · 16

• Proverbs 3:5

  Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

• Proverbs 3:7

  Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

• Proverbs 12:15

  The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

• Proverbs 23:4

  Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

• Proverbs 26:5

  Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

• Proverbs 26:12

  Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

• Proverbs 26:16

  The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

• Proverbs 28:11

  The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

• Proverbs 28:26

  One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

• Isaiah 5:21

  Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

• Jeremiah 9:23

  Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

• Luke 18:11

  The 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.

• Luke 18:12

  I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

• Romans 1:22

  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

• Romans 11:25

  For 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,

• Romans 12:16

  Be 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.