Ecclesiastes 7:16

Modern King James Version

Do not be righteous overmuch, neither make yourself overwise; why destroy yourself?

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

Job 11:12

For foolish man would be wise, and man is born 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

Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own understanding.

Proverbs 25:16

Have you found honey? Eat only as much as is enough for you, lest you be filled with it and vomit it.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

And further, by these, my son, be warned: The making of many books has 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 decorate the tombs of the righteous,

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

Matthew 23:5

But they do all their works in order to be seen of men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.

Matthew 9:14

Then the disciples of John came to Him saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?

Luke 18:12

I fast twice on the Sabbath, I give tithes of all that I possess.

Romans 10:2

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

Romans 11:25

For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you should be wise within yourselves; that blindness in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations has comes in.

Romans 12:3

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so 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; regarding the righteousness in the Law, blameless.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one defraud you, delighting in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he has not seen, without a cause being vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Colossians 2:23

These things indeed have a reputation of wisdom in self-imposed worship and humility, and unsparing severity of the body, but are not of any value for the satisfying of the flesh.

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Revelation 18:19

And they threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe! Woe to the great city, by which all who had ships in the sea were rich out of her costliness! For in one hour she was ruined.