Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?


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Ecclesiastes 7 17 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
Proverbs 28 10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
Proverbs 9 12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Proverbs 25 8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Proverbs 11 19 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
Psalms 34 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Proverbs 11 17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
Proverbs 10 21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Philippians 2 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
2 Samuel 18 13 Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
Proverbs 3 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Romans 7 18 For I know that in me that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Psalms 141 4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Proverbs 21 15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Ezekiel 36 31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
1 Corinthians 3 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
John 5 30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Proverbs 13 25 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
Isaiah 26 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Ecclesiastes 7 15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Proverbs 19 16 He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Ecclesiastes 2 26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Deuteronomy 1 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Jeremiah 4 18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
Proverbs 19 8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
Psalms 33 10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Genesis 18 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Job 35 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Romans 6 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Job 5 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Psalms 125 3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
Proverbs 13 6 Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Ecclesiastes 2 21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ezekiel 33 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
Exodus 23 7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Romans 5 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Proverbs 12 21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
Proverbs 11 5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
1 Peter 3 17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Jeremiah 2 33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Ecclesiastes 11 10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Proverbs 13 20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
1 Samuel 12 21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Proverbs 10 3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
Proverbs 16 18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
2 Samuel 22 26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
Jeremiah 45 5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
Proverbs 18 12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
James 3 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Job 34 32 That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.