Jeremiah 9:23

New International Version

This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches,

Cross References

Job 32:13

Do not say, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not a man, refute him.’

Job 41:15

Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;

Psalm 33:5

The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.

Psalm 34:3

Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together.

Psalm 44:9

But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.

Psalm 62:10

Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed 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 whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.

Isaiah 10:8

‘Are not my commanders all kings?’ he says.

Isaiah 20:5

Those who trusted in Cush and boasted in Egypt will be dismayed and put to shame.

Isaiah 47:10

You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’

Isaiah 5:21

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

Jeremiah 31:34

No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

Jeremiah 48:14

“How can you say, ‘We are warriors, men valiant in battle’?

Jeremiah 48:7

Since you trust in your deeds and riches, you too will be taken captive, and Chemosh will go into exile, together with his priests and officials.

Jeremiah 49:4

Why do you boast of your valleys, boast of your valleys so fruitful? Unfaithful Daughter Ammon, you trust in your riches and say, ‘Who will attack me?’

Ezekiel 29:9

Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the Lord. “ ‘Because you said, “The Nile is mine; I made it,”

Ezekiel 7:19

“ ‘They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. It will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs, for it has caused them to stumble into sin.

Daniel 3:15

Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?”

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath.” In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth.

Mark 10:24

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Romans 1:22

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

1 Corinthians 1:31

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

Deuteronomy 8:17

You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”

Philippians 3:10

I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

Philippians 3:8

What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

1 Samuel 17:42

He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him.