Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [
are] the ways of death.
Proverbs 26:12 Seest thou
a man wise in his own conceit? [
there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
Isaiah 5:20-
21 Woe unto
them that
call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ... Woe unto [
them that are]
wise in their own eyes, and prudent
in their own sight!
Jeremiah 8:8-
9 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. ...
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?
John 7:48-
49 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? ... But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
John 9:39-
41 And Jesus said,
For judgment I am come into this world,
that they which see not might see; and that they which see
might be made blind. ... Jesus said unto them,
If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Romans 2:19-
23 And
art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind,
a light of them which are in darkness, ... Thou
that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
1 Corinthians 1:19-
21 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. ... 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 3:18-
20 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 again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise,
that they are vain.
James 3:13-
17 Who
[is] a wise man and
endued with knowledge among you?
let him shew out of
a good conversation his works
with meekness of wisdom. ... But
the wisdom that is from above is
first pure, then
peaceable,
gentle, [
and] easy to be intreated,
full of mercy and good fruits,
without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
2 Peter 1:9 But he that
lacketh these things is
blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten
that he was purged from his old sins.
2 Peter 2:18 For when
they speak great swelling [
words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [
through much]
wantonness, those
that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Revelation 3:17 Because thou sayest,
I am rich, and increased with goods, and
have need of nothing; and
knowest not that thou art
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and
blind, and
naked:
