Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
General references
Bible References
To be
Psalm 34:18
Jehovah is near to the broken of heart, and he will save the humble of spirit
Psalm 138:6
If Jehovah is high, and he will see the humble one: and the lofty one he will know from far off.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus said the high and lifted up inhabiting eternity, and his name Holy; being lifted up, and I will dwell in the holy place, and with the broken and humble of spirit, to preserve alive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the broken.
Matthew 5:3
Happy the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens.
Luke 1:51
He has done strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thought of their heart.
Luke 18:13
And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful.
Than
Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will enclose, I will divide the spoil: my soul shall be filled with them: I will draw out my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.
Isaiah 9:3
Thou didst multiply the nation, thou didst not increase the joy: they rejoiced before thee according to the joy in harvest as they will exalt in their dividing the spoil.
Isaiah 10:6
Against a polluted nation will I send him, and upon a people of my outpouring will I command him to spoil a spoil and to plunder a plunder, and to set them a treading down as the clay of the streets.
Isaiah 53:12
For this I will divide to him with many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; for which his soul was poured out to death, and he was numbered with transgressors; and he lifted up the sin of many, and he will supplicate for transgressors.
General references
Matthew 23:12
And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whoever shall humble himself, shall be exalted.