1 Timothy 3:6

Qualifications For Overseers

⁵ (and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?) ⁶ not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil; ⁷ and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

Evil One

Lifted Up

Devil

Sin

1 Timothy 6:4

he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

Deuteronomy 8:14

'And thy heart hath been high, and thou hast forgotten Jehovah thy God (who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

Deuteronomy 17:20

so that his heart is not high above his brethren, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongeth days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

2 Kings 14:10

Thou hast certainly smitten Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up; be honoured, and abide in thy house; and why dost thou stir thyself up in evil, that thou hast fallen, thou, and Judah with thee?'

2 Chronicles 26:16

And at his being strong his heart hath been high unto destruction, and he trespasseth against Jehovah his God, and goeth in unto the temple of Jehovah to make perfume upon the altar of perfume.

2 Chronicles 32:25

and Hezekiah hath not returned according to the deed done unto him, for his heart hath been lofty, and there is wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem;

Proverbs 16:18-19

Before destruction is pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour is humility.

Proverbs 29:23

The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.

Isaiah 2:12

For a day is to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,

Isaiah 14:12-14

How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.

Luke 10:18

and he said to them, 'I was beholding the Adversary, as lightning from the heaven having fallen;

1 Corinthians 3:1

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

1 Corinthians 4:6-8

And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

1 Corinthians 8:1

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

2 Corinthians 12:7

and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

Hebrews 5:12-13

for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

1 Peter 2:2

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

1 Peter 5:5

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

2 Peter 2:4

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,

Jude 1:6

messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,