2 Chronicles 25:19

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.

because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

They abandoned the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

not of works, that no one would boast.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”

They each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.

Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;

But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.

Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One spoke saying in this way, and another saying in that way.

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

“Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

The multitude will be lifted up, and his heart will be exalted. He will cast down tens of thousands, but he won’t prevail.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

that no flesh should boast before God.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”