Proverbs 18:12

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

¹¹ The wealth of a rich person is like a strong city, and it is like a high wall in his imagination. ¹² Before destruction the heart of a person is proud, but humility comes before honor. ¹³ The one who gives an answer before he listens -- that is his folly and his shame.

Lifted Up

Proverbs 11:2

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of the Lord provides wise instruction, and before honor comes humility.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 29:23

A person's pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.

Ezekiel 28:2

"Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'Your heart is proud and you said, "I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas" -- yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, "I am a god," before the one who kills you -- though you are a man and not a god -- when you are in the power of those who wound you?

Job 42:6-17

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!

Isaiah 6:5-13

I said, "Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies."

Ezekiel 16:49-50

"'See here -- this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help the poor and needy.

Daniel 5:23-24

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone -- gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!

Daniel 9:20

While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning his holy mountain --

Daniel 9:23

At the beginning of your requests a message went out, and I have come to convey it to you, for you are of great value in God's sight. Therefore consider the message and understand the vision:

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

Acts 12:21-23

On a day determined in advance, Herod put on his royal robes, sat down on the judgment seat, and made a speech to them.

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.