Jeremiah 43:2
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2 Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other proud men said to Jeremiah, “You lie! The Lord our God hasn’t forbidden us to go to Egypt!
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Isaiah 7:9
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9 Israel is no stronger than its capital, Samaria,
and Samaria is no stronger than its king, Pekah son of Remaliah.
Unless your faith is firm,
I cannot make you stand firm.”
2 Chronicles 36:13
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13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, even though he had taken an oath of loyalty in God’s name. Zedekiah was a hard and stubborn man, refusing to turn to the Lord, the God of Israel.
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1 Peter 5:5
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5 In the same way, you who are younger must accept the authority of the elders. And all of you, dress yourselves in humility as you relate to one another, for
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”[a]
James 4:6
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6 And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say,
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”[a]
Habakkuk 2:4-5
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4 “Look at the proud!
They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked.
But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.[a]
5 Wealth[b] is treacherous,
and the arrogant are never at rest.
They open their mouths as wide as the grave,[c]
and like death, they are never satisfied.
In their greed they have gathered up many nations
and swallowed many peoples.
Footnotes
- 2:3b-4 Greek version reads If the vision is delayed, wait patiently, / for it will surely come and not delay. / 4 I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away. / But the righteous person will live by my faith. Compare Rom 1:17; Gal 3:11; Heb 10:37-38.
- 2:5a As in Dead Sea Scroll 1QpHab; other Hebrew manuscripts read Wine.
- 2:5b Hebrew as Sheol.
Jeremiah 43:1
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Jeremiah Taken to Egypt
43 When Jeremiah had finished giving this message from the Lord their God to all the people,
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Jeremiah 42:1
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Warning to Stay in Judah
42 Then all the military leaders, including Johanan son of Kareah and Jezaniah[a] son of Hoshaiah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, approached
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Jeremiah 40:8
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8 So they went to see Gedaliah at Mizpah. These included: Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, Jezaniah son of the Maacathite, and all their men.
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Jeremiah 13:15
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A Warning against Pride
15 Listen and pay attention!
Do not be arrogant, for the Lord has spoken.
Jeremiah 5:12-13
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12 “They have lied about the Lord
and said, ‘He won’t bother us!
No disasters will come upon us.
There will be no war or famine.
13 God’s prophets are all windbags
who don’t really speak for him.
Let their predictions of disaster fall on themselves!’”
Proverbs 16:18-19
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18 Pride goes before destruction,
and haughtiness before a fall.
19 Better to live humbly with the poor
than to share plunder with the proud.
Proverbs 16:5
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5 The Lord detests the proud;
they will surely be punished.
Jeremiah 41:16
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16 Then Johanan son of Kareah and the other military leaders took all the people they had rescued in Gibeon—the soldiers, women, children, and court officials[a] whom Ishmael had captured after he killed Gedaliah.
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- 41:16 Or eunuchs.
Jeremiah 40:13-16
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A Plot against Gedaliah
13 Soon after this, Johanan son of Kareah and the other military leaders came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. 14 They said to him, “Did you know that Baalis, king of Ammon, has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to assassinate you?” But Gedaliah refused to believe them.
15 Later Johanan had a private conference with Gedaliah and volunteered to kill Ishmael secretly. “Why should we let him come and murder you?” Johanan asked. “What will happen then to the Judeans who have returned? Why should the few of us who are still left be scattered and lost?”
16 But Gedaliah said to Johanan, “I forbid you to do any such thing, for you are lying about Ishmael.”
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Isaiah 9:9-10
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9 And the people of Israel[a] and Samaria,
who spoke with such pride and arrogance,
will soon know it.
10 They said, “We will replace the broken bricks of our ruins with finished stone,
and replant the felled sycamore-fig trees with cedars.”
Footnotes
- 9:9 Hebrew of Ephraim, referring to the northern kingdom of Israel.
Proverbs 30:9
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9 For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?”
And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.
Proverbs 8:13
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13 All who fear the Lord will hate evil.
Therefore, I hate pride and arrogance,
corruption and perverse speech.
Proverbs 6:17
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17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that kill the innocent,
Psalm 123:4
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4 We have had more than our fill of the scoffing of the proud
and the contempt of the arrogant.
Psalm 119:21
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21 You rebuke the arrogant;
those who wander from your commands are cursed.
Psalm 12:3
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3 May the Lord cut off their flattering lips
and silence their boastful tongues.
Psalm 10:4-5
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4 The wicked are too proud to seek God.
They seem to think that God is dead.
5 Yet they succeed in everything they do.
They do not see your punishment awaiting them.
They sneer at all their enemies.
Exodus 9:17
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17 But you still lord it over my people and refuse to let them go.
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Exodus 5:2
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2 “Is that so?” retorted Pharaoh. “And who is the Lord? Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”
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