Jeremiah 9:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Thus says the Lord: Do not let the wise boast in their wisdom; do not let the mighty boast in their might; do not let the wealthy boast in their wealth;

Cross References

Job 32:13

Yet do not say, ‘We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a human.’

Job 41:15

Its back is made of shields in rows, shut up closely as with a seal.

Psalm 33:5

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

Psalm 34:3

O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Psalm 44:9

Yet you have rejected us and shamed us and have not gone out with our armies.

Psalm 62:10

Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set 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, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

and who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Again I saw that under the sun 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 commanders all kings?

Isaiah 20:5

And they shall be dismayed and confounded because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.

Isaiah 47:10

You felt secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me.” Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you 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 shrewd in their own sight!

Jeremiah 31:34

No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 48:14

How can you say, “We are heroes and mighty warriors”?

Jeremiah 48:7

Surely, because you trusted in your strongholds and your treasures, you also shall be taken; Chemosh shall go out into exile, with his priests and his attendants.

Jeremiah 49:4

Why do you boast in your strength? Your strength is ebbing, O faithless daughter. Who trusted in her treasures, saying, “Who will attack me?”

Ezekiel 29:9

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

Ezekiel 7:19

They shall fling their silver into the streets; their gold shall be treated as unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Daniel 3:15

Now if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble, you should fall down and worship the statue that I have made. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire, and who is the god who will 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 truth, and his ways are justice; he is able to bring low those who walk in pride.

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O mortal, 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 save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath; in the fire of his passion the whole earth shall be consumed, for a full, a terrible end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Mark 10:24

And the disciples were perplexed at these words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 1:31

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

Deuteronomy 8:17

Do not say to yourself, ‘My power and the might of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.’

Philippians 3:10

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

1 Samuel 17:42

When the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was only a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance.