Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Destroy
Bible References
Destroy
Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown [by their evil] and are no more,
But the house of the [consistently] righteous will stand [securely].
The wicked are overthrown [by their evil] and are no more,
But the house of the [consistently] righteous will stand [securely].
Proverbs 14:11
The house of the wicked will be overthrown,
But the tent of the upright will thrive.
The house of the wicked will be overthrown,
But the tent of the upright will thrive.
Job 40:11
“Pour out the overflowings of your wrath,
And look at everyone who is proud and make him low.
“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.
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But
Deuteronomy 10:17
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.
Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
Psalm 146:9
The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow;
But He makes crooked the way of the wicked.
The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow;
But He makes crooked the way of the wicked.
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.