Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

Bible References

The mean

Isaiah 5:15
Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.
Psalm 49:2
Pay attention, all you people, both rich and poor!
Jeremiah 5:4
I thought, "Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.
Romans 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Revelation 6:15
Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

Humbleth

Isaiah 57:9
You take olive oil as tribute to your king, along with many perfumes. You send your messengers to a distant place; you go all the way to Sheol.
Colossians 2:18
Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

Therefore

Isaiah 27:11
When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
Joshua 24:19
Joshua warned the people, "You will not keep worshiping the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.
Jeremiah 18:23
But you, Lord, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!
Mark 3:29
But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin"

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