Romans 11:20

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

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

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

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

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

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

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

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.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

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

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.

Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’ ”

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’ ”

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

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

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

“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—

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

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

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

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

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

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.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

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

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’ ”

They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’

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

In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.

He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.” All of the disciples also said likewise.

But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

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.”

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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.

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’

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