Ecclesiastes 7:16

American King James Version (1999)

Be not righteous over much; neither make yourself over wise: why should you destroy yourself ?

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat.

Job 11:12

For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Job 28:28

And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Proverbs 23:4

Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

Proverbs 25:16

Have you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Ecclesiastes 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.

Matthew 23:29

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

Matthew 23:5

But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

Matthew 9:14

Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but your disciples fast not?

Luke 18:12

I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

Romans 10:2

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Romans 11:25

For I would not, brothers, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.

Romans 12:3

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man 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 every man the measure of faith.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

1 Corinthians 3:20

And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

Philippians 3:6

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

Colossians 2:18

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Colossians 2:23

Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh.

1 Timothy 4:3

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Revelation 18:19

And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.