Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

Bible References

General references

Proverbs 6:17
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 21:4
The lamp that guides the wicked—
haughty eyes and an arrogant heart—is sin.
Psalm 101:5
I will destroy anyone
who secretly slanders his neighbor;
I cannot tolerate anyone
with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.
Psalm 131:1
A Davidic song of ascents.Lord, my heart is not proud;
my eyes are not haughty.
I do not get involved with things
too great or too difficult for me.
Isaiah 2:11
Human pride will be humbled,
and the loftiness of men will be brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
Isaiah 3:16
The Lord also says:

Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,
walking with heads held high
and seductive eyes,
going along with prancing steps,
jingling their ankle bracelets,
Ezekiel 28:2
“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord God says:

Your heart is proud,
and you have said, ‘I am a god;
I sit in the seat of gods
in the heart of the sea.’
Yet you are a man and not a god,
though you have regarded your heart
as that of a god.
Daniel 11:36
“Then the king will do whatever he wants. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will say outrageous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, because what has been decreed will be accomplished.
Habakkuk 2:4
Look, his ego is inflated;
he is without integrity.
But the righteous one will live by his faith.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

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