Ecclesiastes 7:16

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 7:16

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

Be not

Neither

James 3:13

Destroy thyself

Matthew 23:38

Revelation 18:19

Bible References

Be not

"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why is it that we and the Pharisees are keeping the fast, while your disciples are not keeping it?"

"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our ancestors? For they eat their bread without first washing their hands."

They do everything they do to have men see it. They wear wide Scripture texts as charms, and they wear large tassels,

I fast two days in the week; I pay tithes on everything I get.'

I can testify to their sincere devotion to God, but it is not an intelligent devotion.

as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.

who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for.

Neither

For to keep you from thinking too well of yourselves, brothers, I do not want you to miss this secret, that only partial insensibility has come upon Israel, to last until all the heathen have come in,

By the favor that God has shown me, I would tell every one of you not to think too highly of himself, but to think reasonably, judging himself by the degree of faith God has allowed him.

Let no one of you deceive himself. If any one of you imagines that he is wiser than the rest of you, in what this world calls wisdom, he had better become a fool, so as to become really wise.

No one can put you in the wrong by persisting in studied humility and the worship of angels, being absorbed in the visions he has seen, and groundlessly conceited over his mere human mind.

What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.

Destroy thyself

Now I leave you to yourselves.

They threw dust on their heads and wept and mourned, crying out, 'Alas! Alas for the great city, where all who had ships on the sea grew rich through her extravagance! For in a single hour she has been destroyed!'