20 Bible Verses about Self Exaltation

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Proverbs 17:19

He loving transgression loves contention: he lifting up his gate seeks breaking.

Proverbs 25:6

Thou shalt not show thyself proud before the king, and thou shalt not stand in the place of the great.

Proverbs 25:7

For good to say to thee, Come up hither, rather than humbling thyself before the noble whom thine eye saw.

Isaiah 14:13

And thou saidst in thy heart, I will go up to the heavens; from above to the stars of God I will lift up my throne, and I will sit upon the mountain of appointment in the thighs of the north.

Isaiah 14:14

I will go up upon the heights of the cloud: I will become like the Most High.

Isaiah 47:10

And thou wilt trust in thy wickedness: thou saidst, None saw me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge it caused thee to turn away; and thou wilt say in thy heart, I, and none yet besides me.

Ezekiel 28:2

Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart was lifted up, and thou wilt say, I am God, I sat upon the seat of God in the heart of the seas; and thou art man and not God, and thou wilt give thy heart as the heart of God.

Ezekiel 31:10

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou wert lifted up in height, and he will give his foliage between the thick boughs, and his heart was lifted up in his height;

Obadiah 1:4

If thou shalt exalt as the eagle, and set thy nest between the stars, from thence will I bring thee down, says Jehovah.

Mark 10:37

And they said to him, Give us that we might sit, one from thy right hand, and one front thy left, in thy glory.

Job 12:3

Also to me a heart like you; I fall not more than you: and with whom not like these?

Ezekiel 31:10-14

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou wert lifted up in height, and he will give his foliage between the thick boughs, and his heart was lifted up in his height; And I will give him into the hand of the God of the nations; he shall do his doing to him: I drove him out for his injustice. And strangers, the terrible of the nations, shall cut him off and cast him down: upon the mountains and in all the galleys his branches fell, and his boughs shall be broken by all the torrents of the land; and all the people of the land shall go down from his shadow, and will cast him down.read more.
Upon his fall shall all the fowls of the heavens sit, and upon his branches were all the beasts of the field: So that all the trees of the waters shall not be lifted up in height, and they shall not give their foliage between the thick boughs, and all they drinking water shall not stand upon them in their height: for they all were given to death, to the earth underneath, in the midst of the sons of man, to those going down to the pit

Luke 14:7-11

And he spake a parable to the called, fixing his attention how they chose out the first places at table; saying to them, When thou art called to the nuptials, thou shouldest not recline in the first place at table; lest a more honourable than thou be called by him: And he having called thee and him, having come, shall say to thee, Give place to this; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take possession of the last place.read more.
But when thou art called, having gone, recline in the last place; that when he having called thee come, might say to thee, Friend, mount up higher; then shall honour be to thee beore them reclining with thee. For whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be exalted.

Isaiah 14:12-15

How thou fallest from the heavens, brilliant star, son of the morning! thou wert cut off to the earth, overthrowing upon the nations! And thou saidst in thy heart, I will go up to the heavens; from above to the stars of God I will lift up my throne, and I will sit upon the mountain of appointment in the thighs of the north. I will go up upon the heights of the cloud: I will become like the Most High.read more.
But to hades shalt thou come down, to the thighs of the pit

Psalm 73:9

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue will go in the earth.

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