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Haughty Eyes
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A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.
This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires. — read the full passage →
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
Yahweh, my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.
Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”
His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →
The proud and haughty man, “scoffer” is his name; he works in the arrogance of pride.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding: — read the full passage →
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of your midst your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.
Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away when I saw it.
For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; — read the full passage →
I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.
For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh. — read the full passage →
We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.
You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →
He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches;
A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. — read the full passage →
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment. — read the full passage →
In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
“Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.
For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →
“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” — read the full passage →
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. — read the full passage →
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