Jeremiah 9:23

Modern English Version

Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;

Cross References

Job 32:13

Lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom’; God will subdue him, not man.

Job 41:15

His scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal.

Psalm 33:5

He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord.

Psalm 34:3

Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.

Psalm 44:9

But You have rejected us and put us to shame, and you do not go out with our armies.

Psalm 62:10

Trust not in oppression; put no vain hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom or understanding or counsel can stand against the Lord.

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows if this man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will gain power over all for which I have toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Again I observed under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the skillful; but time and chance happen to them all.

Isaiah 10:8

For he says, “Are not my princes altogether kings?

Isaiah 20:5

Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed of Cush their hope and Egypt their boast.

Isaiah 47:10

For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you; and you have said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”

Isaiah 5:21

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

Jeremiah 31:34

They shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,” for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 48:14

How do you say, “We are mighty and strong men for the war”?

Jeremiah 48:7

For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you will also be captured; and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity together with his priests and his officials.

Jeremiah 49:4

Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter who trusts in her treasures, saying, “Who shall come against me?”

Ezekiel 29:9

The land of Egypt shall become a desolation and waste. Then they shall know that I am the Lord. Because you said, “The Nile is mine, and I have made it,”

Ezekiel 7:19

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall become abhorrent; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they shall not satisfy their souls, or fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become a stumbling block.

Daniel 3:15

Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who can deliver you out of my hands?”

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and those who walk in pride He is able to abase.

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good— and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s wrath. But the whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy, for He will make a sudden end of all those who dwell on the earth.

Mark 10:24

The disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God!

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

1 Corinthians 1:31

Therefore, as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 8:17

Otherwise, you may say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.”

Philippians 3:10

to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

Philippians 3:8

Yes, certainly, I count everything as loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have forfeited the loss of all things and count them as rubbish that I may gain Christ,

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all evil. While coveting after money, some have strayed from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

1 Samuel 17:42

When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him. For he was a youth and ruddy with a handsome appearance.