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

"Be careful not to do your good deeds in the sight of men, in order to be observed by them. If you do, you have no reward with your heavenly Father.

At that time the disciples of John came and asked him, "Why are we and the Pharisees always fasting, while your disciples are not?"

"Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"

"For they do all their good deeds to be gazed on of men. They widen their phylacteries,

"'I fast twice a week, I pay tithes of all my possessions.'

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, only it is a zeal without knowledge.

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless.

who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

Neither

For I would not, my brothers, have you ignorant of this hidden truth, for fear that you become wise in your own conceits. that a hardening in part has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles is come in.

For, through the grace that was given to me, I tell every man among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think, as to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God has given him.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind;

Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show his deeds by his good life, in the meekness of wisdom.

Destroy thyself

"Behold, your house is left to you desolate!

And they threw dust on their heads, and cried out, Weeping and mourning, saying, "'Woe, woe, the great city, In which all who have ships on the sea Grew rich through her luxury! For in one hour she is made desolate!'"