Proverbs 15:25

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

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

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

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

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.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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

‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

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.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

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

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

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

Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

“I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.

“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

“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 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.

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

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

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.

Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

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

For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

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.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

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.”

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.