Ecclesiastes 7:16 Cross References - ACV

¹⁶ Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise. Why should thou destroy thyself?

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

¹² But vain man is void of understanding. Yea, man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

²⁸ And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

⁴ Weary not thyself to be rich. Out of thine own wisdom, cease.

¹⁶ Have thou found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.

¹² And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

¹ Be careful not to do your charity before men in order to be seen by them, otherwise ye have no reward from your Father in the heavens. ² When therefore thou do charity, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. ³ But when thou do charity, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does, ⁴ so that thy charity may be in secret. And thy Father who sees in secret will himself reward thee in the open. ⁵ And when thou pray, thou shall not be as the hypocrites, because they love to pray having stood in the synagogues and in the corners of the thoroughfares, so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. ⁶ But thou, when thou pray, enter into thy private room, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee in the open. ⁷ And while praying do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard by their much speaking.

¹⁴ Then the disciples of John come to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but thy disciples fast not?

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. ³ And having answered, he said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, because of your tradition? ⁴ For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death. ⁵ But ye say, Whoever may say to the father or the mother, Whatever thou might have benefited from me is an offering. ⁶ And he will, no, not honor his father or mother. And ye have annulled the command of God because of your tradition. ⁷ Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying, ⁸ This people comes near me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me. ⁹ And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

⁵ But all their works they do in order to be seen by men. And they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the hems of their garments.

²³ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye tithe the mint and the anise and the cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law-justice and mercy and faith. These things must be done, and not neglecting those things. ²⁴ Ye blind guides, who strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel.

²⁹ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous,

³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

¹² I fast twice of the week. I tithe all things, as many as I acquire.

² For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

²⁵ For I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise according to yourselves, that a callousness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in.

³ For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith.

¹⁸ Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.

²⁰ and again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.

⁶ regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless.

¹⁸ Let no man umpire against you insisting on self-mortification, and worship of the agents, intruding in things that he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

²³ Which having, are indeed a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and self-mortification, and austerity of the body-not in any value against indulgence of the flesh.

³ forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not descending from above, but is earthly, world-soul, demonic. ¹⁶ For where envy and selfish ambition are, there is instability and every evil deed. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, gentle, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.

¹⁹ And they cast dust on their heads, and cried out, weeping and mourning, and saying, Alas, alas, the great city in which all who had ships in the sea became rich from her luxuriance! Because in one hour she was devastated.