1 Timothy 3:6

Qualifications For Overseers

⁵ For if a man cannot rule his own house, how shall he care for the congregation of God? ⁶ He may not be a young scholar, lest he swell and fall into the judgment of the evil speaker. ⁷ He must also be well reported of among them which are without forth, lest he fall into rebuke, and into the snare of the evil speaker.

Evil One

Lifted Up

Devil

Sin

1 Timothy 6:4

he is puffed up and knoweth nothing: but wasteth his brains about questions, and strife of words, whereof spring envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings

Deuteronomy 8:14

and all that thou hast increased, then beware lest thine heart rise and thou forget the LORD thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt the house of bondage,

Deuteronomy 17:20

that his heart arise not above his brethren and that he turn not from the commandment: either to the righthand or to the left: that both he and his children may prolong their days in his kingdom in Israel.

2 Kings 14:10

Because thou hast beaten the Edomites, therefore thine heart riseth. Be glorious: but tarry at home. For what needest thou to provoke to mischief - that thou shouldest be overthrown and Judah with thee?"

2 Chronicles 26:16

And in his greatness his heart arose, that he was marred: and transgressed against the LORD his God. For he went into the temple of the LORD to burn cense upon the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 32:25

But Hezekiah did not according to the courtesy showed him, for his heart arose: and therefore came there wrath upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

Proverbs 16:18-19

Pride goeth before destruction; and after a proud stomach there followeth a fall.

Proverbs 18:12

After pride cometh destruction; and honour after lowliness.

Proverbs 29:23

After pride cometh a fall; but a lowly spirit bringeth great worship.

Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the LORD of Hosts shall go over all pride and presumption, upon all them that exalt themselves, and shall bring them all down:

Isaiah 14:12-14

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, thou fair morning child! How hast thou gotten a fall, even to the ground; thou that didst subdue the people?

Luke 10:18

And he said unto them, "I saw Satan, as it had been lightning, fall down from heaven.

1 Corinthians 3:1

And I could not speak unto you brethren as unto spiritual: but as unto carnal, even as it were unto babes in Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:6-8

These things, brethren, I have described in mine own person, and Apollos, for your sakes - that ye might learn by us that no man count of himself beyond that which is above written: that one swell not against another for any man's cause.

1 Corinthians 8:1

To speak of things dedicated unto idols, we are sure that we all have knowledge. Knowledge maketh a man swell: but love edifieth.

2 Corinthians 12:7

And lest I should be exalted out of measure through the abundance of revelations, there was given unto me of God unquietness of the flesh: the messenger of Satan to buffet me, because I should not be exalted out of measure.

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, heady, high minded, greedy upon voluptuousness more than the lovers of God,

Hebrews 5:12-13

For when as concerning the time, ye ought to be teachers, yet have ye need again that we teach you the first principles of the word of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat:

1 Peter 2:2

and as newborn babes desire that reasonable milk which is without corruption, that ye may be grown therein.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, ye younger submit yourselves unto the elder. Submit yourselves every man, one to another. Knit yourselves together in lowliness of mind. For God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them in chains of darkness, to be kept unto judgement;

Jude 1:6

The angels also, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day: