False Confidence in Self

9 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

Deuteronomy 29:19 because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
1 Kings 20:11 And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
Proverbs 23:4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Proverbs 28:26 He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
Isaiah 5:21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
Romans 12:16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.
2 Corinthians 1:9 Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

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