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
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
James 2:20
But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless?

Would

Romans 12:16
thinking the same thing one toward another; minding not lofty things, but being carried along with the lowly. Be ye not wise in your own conceits;
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
James 3:13
Who is wise and intelligent among you? Let him show, by his good conduct, his works in meekness of wisdom.

Man be

Ephesians 2:3
among whom we also all once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest;