Jeremiah 17:5-7
5 Thus says the Lord:“Cursed is the man awho trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength, ▼
▼Hebrew arm
whose heart turns away from the Lord.
6 cHe is like a shrub in the desert,
dand shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
in ean uninhabited salt land.
7 f“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
gwhose trust is the Lord.
Ezekiel 33:13
13Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet hif he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.Luke 18:9
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
9He also told this parable to some iwho trusted jin themselves that they were righteous, kand treated others with contempt:
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