Job 11:12
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
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Job 11:12
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
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Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Job 5:12
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job 12:20
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
Proverbs 23:4
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 12:12
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:6
And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
Galatians 6:3
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Colossians 2:18
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Colossians 2:23
Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
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Genesis 21:20
And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
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Genesis 22:5
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
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Exodus 13:13
And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
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Deuteronomy 1:22
And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
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Deuteronomy 30:11
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
Deuteronomy 30:12
It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Deuteronomy 30:13
Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Deuteronomy 30:14
But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Psalms 36:6
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Proverbs 30:3
I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
Proverbs 30:4
Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Ecclesiastes 7:24
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 55:9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
1 Timothy 6:16
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
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Job 6:24
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Job 6:25
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Job 8:8
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Job 8:10
Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Job 11:2
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
Job 11:6
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Job 15:2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Job 17:4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
Job 20:3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Job 32:7
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Job 32:8
But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Job 32:9
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
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Job 11:13
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
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Job 11:15
For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
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Job 13:23
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
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Job 12:12
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Job 13:12
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Job 32:10
Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.
Job 32:11
Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.
Job 32:12
Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
Job 32:13
Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Proverbs 28:11
The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
1 Corinthians 6:5
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
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Psalms 2:1
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
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Psalms 8:4
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Psalms 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Psalms 146:3
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Jeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Hosea 7:11
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Matthew 23:8
But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
Matthew 23:9
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Matthew 23:10
Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:6
For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
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Proverbs 1:4
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 14:18
The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
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Proverbs 12:8
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
Proverbs 18:3
When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
Proverbs 26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverbs 26:16
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Titus 3:8
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
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Song of Solomon 4:9
Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
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Isaiah 58:5
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
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Psalms 49:10
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalms 49:12
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Psalms 49:13
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Psalms 92:6
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
Proverbs 3:7
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 12:11
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Isaiah 29:18
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
1 Corinthians 15:36
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
1 Timothy 1:6
From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
James 3:7
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
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Job 31:37
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
Psalms 14:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
Psalms 49:20
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
Psalms 73:22
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
Jeremiah 8:8
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
Romans 9:20
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
1 Corinthians 1:21
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
1 Corinthians 1:25
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Titus 1:10
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
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Jeremiah 52:21
And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
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Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Isaiah 32:14
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
Daniel 5:21
And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Daniel 5:31
And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
Obadiah 1:3
The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
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Hosea 2:6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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Matthew 3:9
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Matthew 23:28
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Romans 2:17
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
Romans 2:18
And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
Romans 2:19
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
Romans 2:20
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Romans 2:21
Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
Romans 2:22
Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Romans 2:23
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Romans 2:24
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
Romans 2:25
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Romans 2:29
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
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Romans 2:26
Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Romans 2:27
And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
Romans 2:28
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
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Job 22:13
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Psalms 73:11
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Psalms 94:8
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Psalms 94:9
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Psalms 94:10
He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
Psalms 94:12
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
Song of Solomon 2:11
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
Ezekiel 37:3
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
John 9:10
Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
Romans 4:17
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
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Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Psalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Ecclesiastes 11:5
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:5
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
John 3:9
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
John 3:10
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Revelation 22:15
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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Ephesians 4:24
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
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2 Chronicles 25:19
Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
2 Chronicles 32:25
But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Isaiah 14:13
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isaiah 14:14
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isaiah 14:15
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Ezekiel 28:17
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Ezekiel 31:10
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
Ezekiel 31:14
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Daniel 4:30
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
James 4:6
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
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