Ecclesiastes 7:16
"Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? destroy...: Heb. be desolate?"
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Parallel scriptures and linked biblical themes for Ecclesiastes 7:16.
"For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."
"Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it."
"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, beguile...: or, judge against you in a...: Gr. being a voluntary in humility"
"Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess."