Ecclesiastes 7:16

New American Bible - revised edition

“Be not just to excess, and be not overwise. Why work your own ruin?

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

The woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and the tree was desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Job 11:12

An empty head will gain understanding, when a colt of a wild jackass is born human.

Job 28:28

And to mortals he said: See: the fear of the Lord is wisdom; and avoiding evil is understanding.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not wear yourself out to gain wealth, cease to be worried about it;

Proverbs 25:16

If you find honey, eat only what you need, lest you have your fill and vomit it up.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

As to more than these, my son, beware. Of the making of many books there is no end, and in much study there is weariness for the flesh.

Matthew 23:29

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the memorials of the righteous,

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house will be abandoned, desolate.

Matthew 23:5

All their works are performed to be seen. They widen their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

Matthew 9:14

Then the disciples of John approached him and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast [much], but your disciples do not fast?”

Luke 18:12

I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.’

Romans 10:2

I testify with regard to them that they have zeal for God, but it is not discerning.

Romans 11:25

I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not become wise [in] your own estimation: a hardening has come upon Israel in part, until the full number of the Gentiles comes in,

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given to me I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than one ought to think, but to think soberly, each according to the measure of faith that God has apportioned.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you considers himself wise in this age, let him become a fool so as to become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:20

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

Philippians 3:6

in zeal I persecuted the church, in righteousness based on the law I was blameless. Righteousness from God.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one disqualify you, delighting in self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, inflated without reason by his fleshly mind,

Colossians 2:23

While they have a semblance of wisdom in rigor of devotion and self-abasement [and] severity to the body, they are of no value against gratification of the flesh.

1 Timothy 4:3

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

Revelation 18:19

They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning: “Alas, alas, great city, in which all who had ships at sea grew rich from her wealth. In one hour she has been ruined.