Psalms 119:21

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

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.

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

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

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

“The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.

All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

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

If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

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.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

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

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

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

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.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.

“ ‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land;” so that you don’t obey Yahweh your God’s voice,

“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.

All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.

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

Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”

then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.

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.

“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.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

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

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

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.”