Bible Verses about “showing off how smart you are”

“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”

“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”

“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”

“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”

“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”

“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”

“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”

“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”

“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”

“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”

“"Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.”

“But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”

“Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.”

“so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”

“But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does,”

“"When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.”

“In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.”

“Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.”

“For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.”