17 Bible Verses about Abasing People
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Indeed, you deliver the oppressed, but you bring down those who exalt themselves in their own eyes.
A person's pride will bring about his downfall, but the humble in spirit will gain honor.
for it is better that it be told you, "Come up here," than for you to be placed lower in the presence of an official. What you've seen with your own eyes,
and you will be brought down. You will speak from the ground, and your speech will mumble from the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the ground, and your speech will whisper from the dust.
Those who wink their eyes are trouble makers, and the mocking fool will be brought down.
I'll make sure that you go straight to the Pit, into the lowest part of the earth, where you'll be with people who lived in ancient times. You'll keep company there with the dead, who have gone into the Pit. As a result, your city won't be inhabited. Meanwhile, I will display my glory in the land of the living.
When they go, I'll cast my net over them. I'll bring them down, as one shoots birds in the sky. I'll chasten them, as the assembly has already heard.
The LORD supports the afflicted while he casts the wicked to the ground.
But you, God, bring them down to the Pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I put my full confidence in you. To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "A Silent Dove Far Away," when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
since God is the judge. This one he will debase or that one he will exalt.
Indeed, you oppressed me so much that I nearly fell, but the LORD helped me.
But you are brought down to join the dead, to the far reaches of the Pit.
But the righteousness that comes from faith says, "Do not say in your heart, "Who will go up to heaven?' (that is, to bring the Messiah down),
"And you, Capernaum! You won't be lifted up to heaven, will you? You'll go down to Hell! Because if the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
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