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37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven,

for all his works are truth,
    and his ways are justice;
he is able to bring low
    those who walk in pride.(A)

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But God gives all the more grace; therefore it says,

“God opposes the proud
    but gives grace to the humble.”(A)

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.(B)

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For the word of the Lord is upright,
    and all his work is done in faithfulness.(A)
He loves righteousness and justice;
    the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.(B)

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In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders.[a] And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for

“God opposes the proud
    but gives grace to the humble.”(A)

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time.

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Footnotes

  1. 5.5 Or of those who are older

Talk no more so very proudly;
    let not arrogance come from your mouth,
for the Lord is a God of knowledge,
    and by him actions are weighed.(A)

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The Rock, his work is perfect,
    and all his ways are just.
A faithful God, without deceit,
    just and upright is he;(A)

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But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,[a] in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.(A)

10 Once you were not a people,
    but now you are God’s people;
once you had not received mercy,
    but now you have received mercy.(B)

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  1. 2.9 Gk a people for his possession

24 The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands,(A)

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63 in order that you may remember and be confounded and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord God.(A)

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17 The Lord is just in all his ways
    and kind in all his doings.
18 The Lord is near to all who call on him,
    to all who call on him in truth.(A)

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75 I know, O Lord, that your judgments are right
    and that in faithfulness you have humbled me.(A)

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11 Pour out the overflowings of your anger,
    and look on all who are proud and humble them.(A)
12 Look on all who are proud and bring them low;
    tread down the wicked where they stand.(B)

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11 Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because he delivered the people from the Egyptians,[a] when they dealt arrogantly with them.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 18.11 The clause because . . . Egyptians has been transposed from verse 10