Daniel 5:23
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone -- gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!
Job 12:10
in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.
Jeremiah 10:23
Lord, we know that people do not control their own destiny. It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them.
Job 31:4
Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are made of silver and gold -- they are man-made.
Jeremiah 50:29
"Call for archers to come against Babylon! Summon against her all who draw the bow! Set up camp all around the city! Do not allow anyone to escape! Pay her back for what she has done. Do to her what she has done to others. For she has proudly defied me, the Holy One of Israel.
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live in pride.
2 Kings 14:10
You thoroughly defeated Edom and it has gone to your head! Gloat over your success, but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?"
Psalm 139:3
You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do.
Proverbs 20:24
The steps of a person are ordained by the Lord -- so how can anyone understand his own way?
Isaiah 2:12
Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud -- they will be humiliated;
Isaiah 37:19
They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.
Isaiah 37:23
Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!
Habakkuk 2:18-19
What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?
Genesis 2:7
The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 14:19
He blessed Abram, saying, "Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth.
Judges 16:23
The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said, "Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us."
1 Samuel 5:1-9
Now the Philistines had captured the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
Job 34:14-15
If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,
Psalm 104:29
When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life's breath, they die and return to dust.
Psalm 115:16
The heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind.
Psalm 135:15-17
The nations' idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.
Psalm 146:4
Their life's breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.
Isaiah 33:10
"Now I will rise up," says the Lord. "Now I will exalt myself; now I will magnify myself.
Isaiah 42:5
This is what the true God, the Lord, says -- the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:
Isaiah 46:6-7
Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.
Ezekiel 28:2
"Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'Your heart is proud and you said, "I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas" -- yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.
Ezekiel 28:5
By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.
Ezekiel 28:17
Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor. I threw you down to the ground; I placed you before kings, that they might see you.
Ezekiel 31:10
"'Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because it was tall in stature, and its top reached into the clouds, and it was proud of its height,
Daniel 5:2-4
While under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels -- the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father had confiscated from the temple in Jerusalem -- so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them.
Habakkuk 2:4
Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion, but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.
Acts 17:25
nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.
Acts 17:28-29
For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.'
Romans 1:21-23
For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.
1 Corinthians 8:4
With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol in this world is nothing," and that "there is no God but one."
1 Timothy 3:6
He must not be a recent convert or he may become arrogant and fall into the punishment that the devil will exact.
Hebrews 4:13
And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.
Revelation 13:5-6
The beast was given a mouth speaking proud words and blasphemies, and he was permitted to exercise ruling authority for forty-two months.