Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
The condemnation
Bible References
Novice
1 Corinthians 3:1
And I, my brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual persons, but as to carnal ones, even as to babes in Christ.
Hebrews 5:12
For whereas ye ought for the time to be teachers of others, ye have need again of some one to teach you the first rudiments of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk and not of solid food.
1 Peter 2:2
and envies, and all evil-speakings, as new-born babes desire that rational milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby:
Lest
1 Corinthians 4:6
These things, my brethren, I have by a figure transferred to myself, and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us not to be wise above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up for one against another.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now as to things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge about them. Knowledge however puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
2 Corinthians 12:7
And least I should be too much lifted up with the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, least I should be too much elevated.
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder; and all of you behaving with due submission one to another, be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, but sheweth favor to the humble.
The condemnation
Luke 10:18
And He said unto them, I beheld Satan, as lightning, falling from heaven.
2 Peter 2:4
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement; and if He spared not the old world,
Jude 1:6
and the angels that kept not their primitive state, but left their proper abode, hath He reserved in everlasting chains, under darkness, to the judgement of the great day: