Ezekiel 16:49
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49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, (A)excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
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Ezekiel 28:2
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2 (A)“Son of man, say to (B)the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God:
(C)“Because your heart is proud,
and (D)you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
in the heart of the seas,’
yet (E)you are but a man, and no god,
(F)though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
Psalm 138:6
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6 (A)For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly,
but the haughty he knows from afar.
Genesis 13:10
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10 And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the (A)Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like (B)the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of (C)Zoar. (This was before the Lord (D)destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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Luke 12:16-20
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16 And he told them a parable, saying, (A)“The land of a rich man produced plentifully, 17 and he thought to himself, (B)‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ 18 And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my (C)barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up (D)for many years; relax, (E)eat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, (F)‘Fool! (G)This night (H)your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, (I)whose will they be?’
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Ezekiel 18:16
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16 does not oppress anyone, (A)exacts no pledge, (B)commits no robbery, (C)but gives his bread to the hungry (D)and covers the naked with a garment,
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Ezekiel 18:12
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12 oppresses the poor and needy, (A)commits robbery, (B)does not restore the pledge, (C)lifts up his eyes to the idols, (D)commits abomination,
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Proverbs 18:12
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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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Luke 17:28
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28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of (A)Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
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Luke 16:19-21
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The Rich Man and Lazarus
19 “There was a rich man who was clothed in (A)purple and fine linen and (B)who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate (C)was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with (D)what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
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Micah 3:2-4
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2 you (A)who hate the good and love the evil,
(B)who tear the skin from off my people[a]
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 (C)who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.
4 (D)Then they will cry to the Lord,
but he will not answer them;
(E)he will hide his face from them at that time,
because they have made their deeds evil.
Footnotes
- Micah 3:2 Hebrew from off them
Obadiah 3
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3 (A)The pride of your heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,[a]
in your lofty dwelling,
(B)who say in your heart,
“Who will bring me down to the ground?”
Footnotes
- Obadiah 1:3 Or of Sela
Amos 5:11-12
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11 Therefore because you (A)trample on[a] the poor
and you exact taxes of grain from him,
(B)you have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not dwell in them;
(C)you have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.
12 For I know how many are your transgressions
and how great are your sins—
you who afflict the righteous, who (D)take a bribe,
and (E)turn aside the needy (F)in the gate.
Footnotes
- Amos 5:11 Or you tax
Daniel 5:23
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23 but you have lifted up yourself against (A)the Lord of heaven. And (B)the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. (C)And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, (D)but the God in whose hand is your breath, and (E)whose are all your ways, (F)you have not honored.
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Daniel 4:30
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30 and the king answered and said, (A)“Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by (B)my mighty power as a royal residence and for (C)the glory of my majesty?”
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Ezekiel 28:17
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17 (A)Your heart was proud because of (B)your beauty;
you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor.
I cast you to the ground;
I exposed you before kings,
to feast their eyes on you.
Ezekiel 28:9
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9 (A)Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’
in the presence of those who kill you,
though (B)you are but a man, and no god,
in the hands of those who slay you?
Isaiah 16:6
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6 (A)We have heard of the pride of Moab—
how proud he is!—
(B)of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence;
in his idle boasting he is not right.
Isaiah 3:14-15
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14 The Lord will enter into judgment
with the (A)elders and princes of his people:
“It is you who (B)have devoured[a] the vineyard,
(C)the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by (D)crushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor?”
declares the Lord God of hosts.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 3:14 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
Isaiah 3:9
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9 For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin (A)like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
(B)For they have brought evil on themselves.
Proverbs 21:13
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13 (A)Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor
will himself call out and not be answered.
Proverbs 21:4
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 21:4 Or the plowing
Proverbs 16:18
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18 (A)Pride goes before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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