When We Bow To and Follow Our Idols, We Deny The One Real God

Psalm 115:1-8

1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

From God's point of view, it is no small wonder that our cultures are in such chaos these days. We have mostly thrown God away and we are following false gods and idols, whether those are things, people, institutions, creatures, or ideas. When we seek, consult, and trust any of those, before we consult and depend on the Lord of Creation, the Self-existent One, God Almighty, then we are idolizing and uplifting those things and basically saying that we trust our idols more than we trust in the Eternal God who made all things, and made us in His image. Chasing fun, selfish interests, intellectual ideas, or philosophies has a damaging effect on our lives and our relationship with God, also. Whenever we seek Him secondarily, we denigrate Him and elevate above Him the very people or things that He or we have created. Medicine and so-called science are no different than any of the other things, persons, or constructs to which we too often bow our hearts, minds, spirits, and lives.

We all need to repent of many things and seek God, ...His Christ, ...His only way of salvation... AND, we need to do it His way.

Critical Race Theory Is Nothing More Than Cain Vs Abel

 Since the beginning of Human history, dictators, oppressors, the angry, the jealous, the self-absorbed, self-interested, and high-minded people have all sought ways to re-invent and elevate themselves artificially above the rest of humanity, especially in relation to those of whom they are jealous, or by whom they perceive themselves hurt or slighted. God hates jealousy for jealousy is not rooted in godly love nor in concern for our fellow humans. God despises our hatred of those around us. God despises rebelliousness.

God struck Moses sister with leprosy because his sister was griping about Moses marrying an Ethiopian woman. God struck rebels, whiners, and complainers with fire, illness, earthquakes, and serpent bites, and that was among His chosen people, Israel. He is no less concerned with the way the rest of us conduct ourselves toward Him and toward each other. If we learn nothing else from God's Word, we must learn that God affords us only one entitlement in life, the gift of being able to choose whether we will ourselves to accept and follow God and His ways, or to reject them. There is no greater decision that we shall ever face in life, and God lets us choose that. The consequences are eternally emancipating or eternally damning, for in our choice we determine our own eternal destiny.

Most people do not want to admit or look at the sin nature of their own flesh nor of their fellow Man, in order to judge righteous judgment. As many times as I have read God's Word, there are still times that I do not want to deal with my sin or my sin nature. THAT is why I must accept and trust God's only Savior. Most people try to avoid admitting or dealing with their sin and their sin nature. But, God does not overlook our sinful ways, as we strive to hatefully claw our way over each other. Those who despise God's self-sacrificing ways force themselves to look for superficial ways by which to try to distance their own personal sin from the sin of others against whom they rant or from whom they are segregating themselves morally, socially, politically, and spiritually. God's Word points out that all too often we say we love God, whom we have not seen, when we really hate our fellow humans whom we have seen. We make ourselves into liars when we make claims like that. God does not tolerate self-justification, for we are all without excuse when we sin.

All human beings are made in God's image and therefore no different from one another in most aspects of our lives. Yes, God gives each of us genetic differences and allows us to be born into different cultures and life conditions, within the framework of Humanity, but none of us are any better than any other person, to God. To God, none of us are racially inferior or superior to any other person. We can all interbreed and are answerable to God for whether we live up to or reject His Word and His standards of living. He says, "there is none righteous, no not one." And, He calls all of us to repentance and faith in Him and His plan of salvation. Racial superiority and inferiority are nonsense for God, alone, is our Creator, Master, Father, Judge, and Redeemer. The One whom He has appointed shall judge us by His Word, whether that judgment comes sooner or later. It shall be accomplished. God's promises cannot be broken, though Humanity desperately tries to find ways around what God says.

Who do we dare to think that we are, elevating ourselves above others? We are NOT God. Who do we think we are, as we denigrate others? We are NOT God. To God, our attempts to manipulate our perceived relative position in relation to other people is selfish and hateful, because we attempt to distance ourselves from the rest of humanity, whether or not they have wronged us. Why are we NOT as tolerant with others in the same way that we want God to be tolerant of us? Do we think God is blowing hot air when He commands us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves? If we eagerly want and seek "entitlements" should we not be equally eager to see all the rest of Humanity receiving "entitlements"? 

God's Word says, we have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. Yet, in His great love for us, He sent His only begotten Son to live the only sinless life, to then suffer, bleed to death, die, and rise from the dead to set us free, if we will simply choose to believe in and on His Savior. By those merciful things, God demonstrates His godly love, and for that purpose God created and calls all of humanity, NOT to the hatred and self-absorption in which most people wallow as they try to make sense of events and feelings in life. The only Gift from God to which all Humanity is entitled, if we shall will ourselves to accept and receive it, is God's Savior and the salvation that is in Him alone.

This is NOT a polemic against any particular group, but a call to all humanity to repent of our personal and collective sin before it is too late to repent. God only gives us this one life in which to choose or reject His Word, His ways, His Savior, and His salvation. He has offered us Himself and a home with Him. It is now up to each of us to decide what we want our lives to be based on and where we want to spend eternity. Our acceptance or rejection of God's promises determines our destiny. Those who feel powerful should be greatly humbled by God's offer. Those who feel powerless should be greatly emboldened by God's offer. 

Below are links with more biblical information about how you can move from a life of antipathy toward our fellow humans to a life of selfless service to God, our Creator and eternal King. God bless you to choose Him, His Word, and His ways.

Who is the one true God?

What is God's one plan of salvation?

Where can I find God's reliable eternal Word and promises?

Human Solutions Seem Good, But God's Are Better

Psalm 108:12

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

God allows us to pursue all manner of research and knowledge. But, are we really pursuing what pleases Him?

Joshua 1:8 defines what God means by success.

God only has one Savior for humanity.

God only has one plan of salvation.

God leaves the choice up to us, as He points out in John 3 and in Luke 16, whether we want to accept His ways or reject them. We only get one life in which to make this choice.

Call On the LORD God In Good Times and Bad Times: God Alone Keeps His Word

Psalm 12:1-8

1Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

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Luke 4

15And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, 18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Run-Away Rage or Imagination? God's Solution Gives Real Peace

Psalm 2:1-12
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Seek God's Son.

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When The World Agrees With God's Word, We All Should Listen

Throughout history and in the lives of, even, the most ardent of true believers in God and His ways, yet, too often we forget to listen to all the godly counsel around us, because our prejudice or ignorant treatment of the source of that counsel. Let this Bible passage be a lesson that we all need to learn, that we weigh and prove all counsel by the rest of what God has instructed us, that we not end up hurt, dead, or undermining the work that God has planned for our lives. Let us not, by our neglect or prejudice, damage and grieve others around us.

2 Chronicles 35:20-24
²⁰ After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. 

²¹  But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. 

²²  Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. 

²³  And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. 

²⁴  His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. 

Let us heed, for God has declared His only Savior.

Let us heed, for God has declared His only plan of salvation.

Live In Awe Of God, Not In Pride

 Job 9:13

¹³  If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

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Job 26:12
¹²  He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

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Job 38:11
¹¹  And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

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Job 40:11
¹¹  Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

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Job 40:12
¹²  Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

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Psalm 12:3
³  The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

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Psalm 31:23
²³  O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

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Psalm 40:4
⁴  Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

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Psalm 86:14
¹⁴  O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

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Psalm 94:2
²  Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

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Psalm 101:5
⁵  Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

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Psalm 119:21
²¹  Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

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Psalm 119:51
⁵¹  The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

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Psalm 119:69
⁶⁹  The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

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Psalm 119:78
⁷⁸  Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

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Psalm 119:85
⁸⁵  The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

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Psalm 119:122
¹²²  Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

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Psalm 123:4
⁴  Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

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Psalm 124:5
⁵  Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

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Psalm 138:6
⁶  Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

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Psalm 140:5
⁵  The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

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Proverbs 6:17
¹⁷  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

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Proverbs 15:25
²⁵  The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

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Proverbs 16:5
⁵  Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

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Proverbs 16:19
¹⁹  Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

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Proverbs 21:4
⁴  An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

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Proverbs 21:24
²⁴  Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

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Proverbs 28:25
²⁵  He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

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Ecclesiastes 7:8
⁸  Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

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Isaiah 2:12
¹²  For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

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Isaiah 13:11
¹¹  And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

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Isaiah 16:6
⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

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Jeremiah 13:15
¹⁵  Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.

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Jeremiah 43:2
²  Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:

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Jeremiah 48:29
²⁹  We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

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Jeremiah 50:29
²⁹  Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

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Jeremiah 50:31
³¹  Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

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Jeremiah 50:32
³²  And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

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Habakkuk 2:5
⁵ Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

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Malachi 3:15
¹⁵  And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

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Malachi 4:1
¹ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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Luke 1:51
⁵¹  He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

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Romans 1:30
³⁰  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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1 Timothy 6:4
⁴  He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

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2 Timothy 3:2
²  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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James 4:6
⁶  But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

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1 Peter 5:5
⁵ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Leviticus 26:19
¹⁹  And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

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1 Samuel 17:28
²⁸  And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

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2 Chronicles 32:26
²⁶  Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

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Job 33:17
¹⁷  That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

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Job 35:12
¹²  There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

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Job 41:15
¹⁵  His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

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Job 41:34
³⁴  He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

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Psalm 10:2
²  The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

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Psalm 10:4
⁴  The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

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Psalm 31:20
²⁰  Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

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Psalm 36:11
¹¹  Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

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Psalm 59:12
¹²  For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

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Psalm 73:6
⁶  Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

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Proverbs 8:13
¹³  The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

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Proverbs 11:2
²  When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

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Proverbs 13:10
¹⁰  Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

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Proverbs 14:3
³  In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

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Proverbs 16:18
¹⁸  Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

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Proverbs 29:23
²³  A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

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Isaiah 9:9
⁹  And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

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Isaiah 16:6
⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

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Isaiah 23:9
⁹  The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

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Isaiah 25:11
¹¹  And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

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Isaiah 28:1
¹ Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

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Isaiah 28:3
³  The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

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Jeremiah 13:9
⁹  Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

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Jeremiah 13:17
¹⁷  But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.

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Jeremiah 48:29
²⁹  We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

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Jeremiah 49:16
¹⁶  Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

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Ezekiel 7:10
¹⁰  Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

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Ezekiel 16:49
⁴⁹  Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

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Ezekiel 16:56
⁵⁶  For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,

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Ezekiel 30:6
⁶  Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

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Daniel 4:37
³⁷  Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

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Daniel 5:20
²⁰  But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

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Hosea 5:5
⁵  And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

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Hosea 7:10
¹⁰  And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

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Obadiah 1:3
³  The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

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Zephaniah 2:10
¹⁰  This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

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Zephaniah 3:11
¹¹  In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

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Zechariah 9:6
⁶  And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

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Zechariah 10:11
¹¹  And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

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Zechariah 11:3
³  There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

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Mark 7:22
²²  Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

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1 Timothy 3:6
⁶  Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

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1 John 2:16
¹⁶  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.