Proverbs 15:25

The Lord will tear down the house of the proud and arrogant (self-righteous),
But He will establish and protect the boundaries [of the land] of the [godly] widow.

Psalm 146:9

The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow;
But He makes crooked the way of the wicked.

Proverbs 12:7

The wicked are overthrown [by their evil] and are no more,
But the house of the [consistently] righteous will stand [securely].

Psalm 68:5-6

A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked will be overthrown,
But the tent of the upright will thrive.

Proverbs 23:10

Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
And do not go into the fields of the fatherless [to take what is theirs],

Deuteronomy 10:17-18

For the Lord your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe.

“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the forefathers [who first divided the territory] have set, in the land which you will inherit in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

Job 40:11-13

“Pour out the overflowings of your wrath,
And look at everyone who is proud and make him low.

Psalm 52:1

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

Psalm 52:5

But God will break you down forever;
He will take you away and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

Psalm 138:6

Though the Lord is exalted,
He regards the lowly [and invites them into His fellowship];
But the proud and haughty He knows from a distance.

Isaiah 2:12

For the Lord of hosts will have a day of reckoning
Against all who are proud and arrogant
And against all who are lifted up,
That they may be degraded.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became so proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken away from him.

James 1:27

Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, you younger men [of lesser rank and experience], be subject to your elders [seek their counsel]; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another [tie on the servant’s apron], for God is opposed to the proud [the disdainful, the presumptuous, and He defeats them], but He gives grace to the humble.

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