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
Near is Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.
Psalm 138:6
For high is Jehovah, and the lowly He seeth, And the haughty from afar He knoweth.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy is His name: 'In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'
Matthew 5:3
Happy the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.
Luke 1:51
He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart,
Luke 18:13
And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!
Than
Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: --
Isaiah 9:3
Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast made great its joy, They have joyed before Thee as the joy in harvest, As men rejoice in their apportioning spoil.
Isaiah 10:6
Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.
Isaiah 53:12
Therefore I give a portion to him among the many, And with the mighty he apportioneth spoil, Because that he exposed to death his soul, And with transgressors he was numbered, And he the sin of many hath borne, And for transgressors he intercedeth.
General references
Matthew 23:12
and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.