There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Yarov`am said in his heart, Now will the kingdom return to the house of David:
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Yerushalayim: see your gods, Yisra'el, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.
There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
*Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.