Ecclesiastes 7:16

Other passages that echo Ecclesiastes 7:16 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

1. Genesis 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
2. Job 11:12But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
3. Job 28:28And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
4. Proverbs 23:4Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
5. Proverbs 25:16If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.
6. Ecclesiastes 12:12And by these, my son, be further warned: There is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body.
7. Matthew 6:1“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
8. Matthew 9:14At that time John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast so often, but Your disciples do not fast?”
9. Matthew 15:2“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
10. Matthew 23:5All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
11. Matthew 23:23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
12. Matthew 23:29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
13. Matthew 23:38Look, your house is left to you desolate.
14. Luke 18:12I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’
15. Romans 10:2For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.
16. Romans 11:25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
17. Romans 12:3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.
18. 1 Corinthians 3:18Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.
19. 1 Corinthians 3:20And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
20. Philippians 3:6as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
21. Colossians 2:18Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.
22. Colossians 2:23Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
23. 1 Timothy 4:3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
24. James 3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

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