conceit

¹⁶Be of the same mind toward one another: not savoring what is exalted, but consenting in humility. Do not choose to seem wise to yourself.

²³Thus says the Lord: “The wise man should not glory in his wisdom, and the strong man should not glory in his strength, and the rich man should not glory in his riches.

⁷Do not seem wise to yourself. Fear God, and withdraw from evil.

¹²Have you seen a man who seems wise to himself? There will be greater hope held for the unwise than for him.

¹Therefore, if there is any consolation in Christ, any solace of charity, any fellowship of the Spirit, any feelings of commiseration: ²complete my joy by having the same understanding, holding to the same charity, being of one mind, with the same sentiment. ³Let nothing be done by contention, nor in vain glory. Instead, in humility, let each of you esteem others to be better than himself. ⁴Let each of you not consider anything to be your own, but rather to belong to others. ⁵For this understanding in you was also in Christ Jesus: ⁶who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be seized.

⁵Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence.

¹⁵The way of the foolish is right in his own eyes. But whoever is wise listens to counsels.

²²For, while proclaiming themselves to be wise, they became foolish.

⁵Respond to the foolish according to his folly, lest he imagine himself to be wise.

¹⁶The lazy one seems wiser to himself than seven men speaking judgments.

²¹Woe to you who are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own sight!

⁴Do not be willing to labor so that you may be enriched. But set limits by your prudence.

¹¹Standing, the Pharisee prayed within himself in this way: ‘O God, I give thanks to you that I am not like the rest of men: robbers, unjust, adulterers, even as this tax collector chooses to be.

³For if anyone considers himself to be something, though he may be nothing, he deceives himself. ⁴So let each one prove his own work. And in this way, he shall have glory in himself only, and not in another.

¹¹The rich one seems wise to himself. But the poor one, being prudent, shall evaluate him.

¹²I fast twice between Sabbaths. I give tithes from all that I possess.’

²⁵For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery (lest you seem wise only to yourselves) that a certain blindness has occurred in Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has arrived.

²⁶Whoever trusts in his own heart is a fool. But whoever treads wisely, the same shall be saved.

²But those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather serve them all the more because they are believing and beloved, participants of the same service. Teach and exhort these things. ³If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to that doctrine which is in accord with piety, ⁴then he is arrogant, knowing nothing, yet languishing amid the questions and quarrels of words. From these arise envy, contention, blasphemy, evil suspicions: ⁵the conflicts of men who have been corrupted in mind and deprived of truth, who consider profit to be piety.

⁶He must not be a new convert, lest, being elated by pride, he may fall under the sentence of the devil.