Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Flesh
General references
Bible References
Cursed
Psalm 62:9
As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.
Psalm 118:8
It is better to trust in the LORD, than to put any confidence in man.
Psalm 146:3
O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man, for there is no help in them.
Isaiah 2:22
Fear not, then, any man whose breath is in his nostrils - for what is he?
Isaiah 30:1
Alas, for those disobedient children," sayeth the LORD, "that will take counsel without me. Alas, that they will take a secret advice, and not out of my spirit: and therefore add they sin unto sin.
Isaiah 36:6
Lo, thou puttest thy trust in a broken staff of reed: I mean Egypt, which he that leaneth upon, it goeth into his hand and shooteth him through. Even so is Pharaoh the king of Egypt, unto all them that trust in him.
Ezekiel 29:6
that all they which dwell in Egypt, may know, that I am the LORD: because thou hast been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
Flesh
2 Chronicles 32:8
With him is an arm of flesh: But with us is the LORD our God for to help us and to fight our battles!" And the people were well couraged with the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Isaiah 31:3
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit. And as soon as the LORD stretcheth out his hand: then shall the helper fall, and he that should have been helped, and they shall all together be destroyed.
Whose
Psalm 18:21
Because I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not forsaken my God, as the wicked doth. {TYNDALE: For I kept the ways of the LORD, and did no wickedness, forsaking my God.}
Isaiah 59:15
Yea, the truth is laid in prison, and he that refraineth himself from evil must be spoiled. When the LORD saw this, it displeased him sore that there was nowhere any equity.
Ezekiel 6:9
And they that escape from you, shall think upon me among the Heathen, where they shall be in captivity. As for that whorish and unfaithful heart of theirs, wherewith they run away from me, I will break it: Yea, and put out those eyes of theirs, that committed fornication with their idols. Then shall they be ashamed, and displeased with their selves, for the wickedness and abominations, which they have done:
Hosea 1:2
First, when the LORD spake unto Hosea, he said unto him, "Go thy way, take a harlot to thy wife, and get children by her: for the land hath committed great whoredom against the LORD."
Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart, in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God:
General references
2 Kings 7:20
And so it chanced: for the people trod him under feet in the gate, that he died.
Psalm 118:8
It is better to trust in the LORD, than to put any confidence in man.