Be Not Righteous Over Much: Why Destroy Yourself?

Free to turn away (say goodbye)
Free to walk away (and deny)
The gift waiting for you
Whispers a still small voice
It’s your choice
You’re…


Free (free, free, free), free to do what you want to
Choose your own destiny (free, free, free)
Free to do what you want to

Free to open up (and believe)
Free to only ask (and receive)
There’s no better time than now
You’ve got the right to choose
You can’t lose
You’re…


Free (free, free, free), free to do what you want to
Choose your own destiny (free, free, free)
Free to do what you want to

Free, free to do what you want to
Choose your own destiny
Free to do what you want to
Free, free to do what you want to
Choose your own destiny
Free to do what you want to

–Stryper, “Free”–



Be not righteous over much;
neither make thyself over wise:
why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

–Ecclesiastes 7:16 (KJV)–

Be not over just:
and be not more wise than is necessary,
lest thou become stupid.

–Ecclesiastes 7:16 (Douay-Rheims)

Do not be overrighteous,
neither be overwise–why destroy yourself?

–Ecclesiastes 7:16 (NIV)–

Be not overly righteous,
and do not make yourself too wise.
Why should you destroy yourself?

–Ecclesiastes 7:16 (ESV)–

Do not be excessively righteous
[like those given to self-conceit],
and do not be overly wise (pretentious)–
why should you bring yourself to ruin?

–Ecclesiastes 7:16 (AMP)–

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
–Matthew 23:23-24 (KJV)–

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