Numbers 22:37
And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto you to call you? why came you not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?
Numbers 24:11
Therefore now flee to your place: I thought to promote you unto great honor; but, lo, the LORD has kept you back from honor.
Numbers 22:16-17
And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray you, hinder you from coming unto me:
Psalm 75:6
For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Matthew 4:8-9
Again, the devil took him up into an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Luke 4:6
And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give you, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
John 5:44
How can you believe, who receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from God only?