Deuteronomy 8:14
8:14 be sure
you do not feel self-important and forget the
Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery,
Deuteronomy 8:2
8:2 Remember the whole way by which he
has brought you these forty years through the desert
so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
Deuteronomy 26:16
Narrative Interlude
26:16 Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.
Deuteronomy 32:25
32:25 The sword will make people childless outside,
and terror will do so inside;
they will destroy both the young man and the virgin,
the infant and the gray-haired man.
Proverbs 16:18
16:18 Pride goes before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Ezekiel 38:2
38:2 “Son of man, turn toward
Gog,
of the land of Magog,
the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
Prophesy against him
Ezekiel 38:5
38:5 Persia,
Ethiopia, and Put
are with them, all of them with shields and helmets.
Ezekiel 38:17
38:17 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days that I would bring you against them?
Daniel 5:20-23
5:20 And when his mind
became arrogant
and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.
5:21 He was driven from human society, his mind
was changed to that of an animal, he lived
with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until he came to understand that the most high God rules over human kingdoms, and he appoints over them whomever he wishes.
5:22 “But you, his son Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, although you knew all this.
5:23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!
Habakkuk 2:4
2:4 Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion,
but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.
James 4:6
4:6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “
God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”