Conceit

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Proverbs 3:5 OT

  Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

• Proverbs 3:7 OT

  Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

• Proverbs 12:15 OT

  The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

• Proverbs 23:4 OT

  Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

• Proverbs 26:5 OT

  Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

• Proverbs 26:12 OT

  Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

• Proverbs 26:16 OT

  The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

• Proverbs 28:11 OT

  The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

• Proverbs 28:26 OT

  One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

• Isaiah 5:21 OT

  Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

• Jeremiah 9:23 OT

  Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

• Luke 18:11 NT

  The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

• Luke 18:12 NT

  I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

• Romans 1:22 NT

  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

• Romans 11:25 NT

  For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

• Romans 12:16 NT

  Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.