Habakkuk 2:4

God's Second Answer

³ For the message is a witness to what is decreed; it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out. Even if the message is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently; for it will certainly come to pass -- it will not arrive late. ⁴ Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion, but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness. ⁵ Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man! His appetite is as big as Sheol's; like death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations; he seizes all peoples.

By Faith

Just Shall Live by His Faith

Lifted Up

Live by Faith

Righteous Man

Righteous One

No

Romans 1:17

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, "The righteous by faith will live."

Hebrews 10:38

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.

John 3:36

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God's wrath remains on him.

Galatians 3:11-12

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

Job 40:11-12

Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;

Daniel 4:30

The king uttered these words: "Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by my own mighty strength and for my majestic honor?"

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.

Daniel 5:20-23

And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.

Luke 18:14

I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

Galatians 2:16

yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God's temple, displaying himself as God.

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

1 John 5:10-12

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)