Ecclesiastes 7:16

English Standard Version 2016

Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Cross References

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Proverbs 25:16

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,

Colossians 2:23

These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Genesis 3:6

So when 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 of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

Luke 18:12

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

Proverbs 23:4

Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.

1 Timothy 4:3

who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Philippians 3:6

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

1 Corinthians 3:20

and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”

Romans 11:25

Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Matthew 9:14

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

Job 28:28

And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

Job 11:12

But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man!

Revelation 18:19

And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, “Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been laid waste.

Romans 10:2

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

Matthew 23:38

See, your house is left to you desolate.

Matthew 23:29

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

Matthew 23:5

They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,