MATTHEW 23:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.”
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. The kingdom's consistent reversal principle: self-exaltation produces humbling; self-humbling produces exaltation. The eschatological passive (will be humbled, will be exalted) communicates divine agency: God does the humbling and the exalting. Luke 14:11 and 18:14 repeat the same principle.
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