1 Timothy 3:6
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6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may (A)become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
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1 Timothy 6:4
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4 (A)he is puffed up with conceit and (B)understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for (C)controversy and for (D)quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,
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Hebrews 5:12-13
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12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again (A)the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need (B)milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is (C)a child.
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1 Peter 5:5
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5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. (A)Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for (B)“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
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1 Peter 2:2
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2 (A)Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual (B)milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
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2 Corinthians 12:7
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7 So (A)to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations,[a] (B)a thorn was given me in the flesh, (C)a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
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- 2 Corinthians 12:7 Or hears from me, even because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited
1 Corinthians 8:1
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Food Offered to Idols
8 Now concerning[a] (A)food offered to idols: we know that (B)“all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” (C)puffs up, (D)but love builds up.
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- 1 Corinthians 8:1 The expression Now concerning introduces a reply to a question in the Corinthians' letter; see 7:1
1 Corinthians 4:6-8
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6 I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers,[a] that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may (A)be puffed up in favor of one against another. 7 For who sees anything different in you? (B)What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
8 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!
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- 1 Corinthians 4:6 Or brothers and sisters
1 Corinthians 3:1
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Divisions in the Church
3 But I, brothers,[a] could not address you as (A)spiritual people, but as (B)people of the flesh, as (C)infants in Christ.
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- 1 Corinthians 3:1 Or brothers and sisters
Isaiah 14:12-14
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12 “How (A)you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, (B)son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
13 You said in your heart,
(C)‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
(D)I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north;[a]
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’
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- Isaiah 14:13 Or in the remote parts of Zaphon
Isaiah 2:12
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12 (A)For the Lord of hosts has a day
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
Proverbs 29:23
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Proverbs 18:12
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Proverbs 16:18-19
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18 (A)Pride goes before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.
19 (B)It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor
than to (C)divide the spoil with the proud.
2 Chronicles 32:25
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25 But Hezekiah (A)did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for (B)his heart was proud. Therefore (C)wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 26:16
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Uzziah's Pride and Punishment
16 But when (A)he was strong, (B)he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.
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2 Kings 14:10
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10 You have indeed (A)struck down Edom, (B)and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”
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Deuteronomy 17:20
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20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he (A)may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, (B)so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.
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Deuteronomy 8:14
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14 (A)then your heart be lifted up, and you (B)forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,
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Jude 6
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6 And (A)the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
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2 Peter 2:4
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4 For if God did not spare (A)angels when they sinned, but (B)cast them into hell[a] and committed them to chains[b] of gloomy darkness (C)to be kept until the judgment;
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- 2 Peter 2:4 Greek Tartarus
- 2 Peter 2:4 Some manuscripts pits
2 Timothy 3:4
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4 treacherous, reckless, (A)swollen with conceit, (B)lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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Luke 10:18
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18 And he said to them, (A)“I saw Satan (B)fall like lightning from heaven.
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