2 Samuel 15:4
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4 Then Absalom would say, (A)“Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”
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Judges 9:29
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29 Would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. I would say[a] to Abimelech, ‘Increase your army, and come out.’”
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- Judges 9:29 Septuagint; Hebrew and he said
2 Peter 2:19
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19 They promise them (A)freedom, (B)but they themselves are slaves[a] of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
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- 2 Peter 2:19 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
Luke 14:8-11
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8 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, 9 and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. 10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, (A)so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. 11 For (B)everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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Proverbs 27:2
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2 Let (A)another praise you, and not your own mouth;
a stranger, and not your own lips.
Proverbs 25:6
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6 Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence
or stand in the place of the great,
Judges 9:1-5
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Abimelech's Conspiracy
9 Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to (A)his mother's relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family, 2 “Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all (B)seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that (C)I am (D)your bone and your flesh.”
3 And his mother's relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, (E)“He is our brother.” 4 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of (F)Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired (G)worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him. 5 And he went to his father's house at (H)Ophrah (I)and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
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