James 4:16
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16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
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Proverbs 27:1
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27 Do not boast about tomorrow,
for you do not know what a day may bring.(A)
1 Corinthians 5:6
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6 Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all of the dough?(A)
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Psalm 52:7
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7 “See the one who would not take
refuge in God
but trusted in abundant riches
and sought refuge in wealth!”[a](A)
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- 52.7 Syr Tg: Heb in his destruction
Proverbs 25:14
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14 Like clouds and wind without rain
is one who boasts of a gift never given.(A)
Revelation 18:7
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7 As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
so give her a like measure of torment and grief.
Since in her heart she says,
‘I rule as a queen;
I am no widow,
and I will never see grief,’(A)
James 3:14
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14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth.
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1 Corinthians 4:7-8
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7 For who sees anything different in you?[a] What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive?(A)
8 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Quite apart from us you have become kings! If only you had become kings, so that we might be kings with you!
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- 4.7 Or Who makes you different from another?
Isaiah 47:10
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10 You felt secure in your wickedness;
you said, “No one sees me.”
Your wisdom and your knowledge
led you astray,
and you said in your heart,
“I am, and there is no one besides me.”(A)
Psalm 52:1
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Psalm 52
Judgment on the Deceitful
To the leader. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
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- 52.1 Cn Compare Syr: Heb the kindness of God
Isaiah 47:7-8
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7 You said, “I shall be mistress forever,”
so that you did not lay these things to heart
or remember their end.(A)
8 Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures,
who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
“I am, and there is no one besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow
or know the loss of children”—(B)
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