1 Samuel 2:3
2:3 Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly,
letting proud talk come out of your mouth!
For the Lord is a God who knows;
he evaluates what people do.
Job 5:13
5:13 He catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.
Jeremiah 10:7
10:7 Everyone should revere you, O King of all nations,
because you deserve to be revered.
For there is no one like you
among any of the wise people of the nations nor among any of their kings.
Jeremiah 10:12
10:12 The Lord is the one who by his power made the earth.
He is the one who by his wisdom established the world.
And by his understanding he spread out the skies.
Jeremiah 10:1
The Lord, not Idols, is the Only Worthy Object of Worship
10:1 You people of Israel, listen to what the Lord has to say to you.
Colossians 1:21-29
Paul’s Goal in Ministry
1:21 And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,
1:22 but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –
1:23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
1:25 I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God – given to me for you – in order to complete the word of God,
1:26 that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.
1:27 God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1:28 We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.
1:29 Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.
Jude 1:25
1:25 to the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.