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12 Do you see people wise in their own eyes?
    There is more hope for fools than for them.(A)

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20 Do you see someone who is hasty in speech?
    There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.(A)

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18 Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.(A) 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written,

“He catches the wise in their craftiness,”(B)

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16 Live in harmony with one another; do not be arrogant, but associate with the lowly;[a] do not claim to be wiser than you are.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 12.16 Or give yourselves to humble tasks

11 The rich is wise in self-esteem,
    but an intelligent poor person sees through the pose.(A)

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31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.(A)

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Answer fools according to their folly,
    lest they be wise in their own eyes.(A)

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17 For you say, ‘I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing.’ You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.(A)

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11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

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44 Then turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.(A)

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16 The lazy person is wiser in self-esteem
    than seven who can answer discreetly.

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29 Do you see those who are skillful in their work?
    They will serve kings;
    they will not serve common people.(A)

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Do not be wise in your own eyes;
    fear the Lord and turn away from evil.(A)

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Encouragement to Be Generous

We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia, for during a severe ordeal of affliction their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

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