1 Timothy 3:6

Qualifications For Overseers

⁵ (but if any man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of a congregation of God?), ⁶ not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil. ⁷ And he must also have good testimony from those outside, lest he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Evil One

Lifted Up

Devil

Sin

1 Timothy 6:4

he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but doting about disputes and word controversies, from which develop envy, strife, revilings, evil surmisings,

Deuteronomy 8:14

then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget LORD thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,

Deuteronomy 17:20

that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel

2 Kings 14:10

Thou have indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up. Glory by it, and abide at home, for why should thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou should fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against LORD his God. For he went into the temple of LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 32:25

But Hezekiah did not render again according to the benefit done to him. For his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

Proverbs 16:18-19

Pride [is] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor [is] humility.

Proverbs 29:23

A man's pride shall bring him low, but he who is of a lowly spirit shall obtain honor.

Isaiah 2:12

For there shall be a day of LORD of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low,

Isaiah 14:12-14

How thou are fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How thou are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

Luke 10:18

And he said to them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from the sky.

1 Corinthians 3:1

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:6-8

Now these things, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us ye might learn not to think above that which is written, so that ye may not be puffed up, one over the one against the other.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2 Corinthians 12:7

And so that I might not be over exalted by the extraordinariness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an agent of Satan so that he would buffet me, so that I would not be over exalted.

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, reckless, beclouded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

Hebrews 5:12-13

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

1 Peter 2:2

as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare heavenly agents who sinned, but delivered them up to chains of darkness, having been cast into hell being reserved for judgment,

Jude 1:6

And the heavenly agents who did not keep their own principality, but left their own habitation, he has kept reserved in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.