11 Bible Verses about Great Individuals

Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlor, and made them sit in the chief place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.

And the king said unto his servants, Know you not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

But the people answered, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now you are worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that you support us from out of the city.

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and came to nothing.

But there was a certain man, called Simon, who previously in the same city used sorcery, and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great one: