Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Man be

Bible References

For vain

Romans 1:22
They called themselves wise, but they have turned into fools,
James 2:20
But do you want proof, my senseless friend, that faith without good deeds amounts to nothing?

Would

Romans 12:16
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be too ambitious, but accept humble tasks. Do not be conceited.
1 Corinthians 3:18
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.
James 3:13
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.

Man be

Ephesians 2:3
We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.