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Narcissism

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2 Timothy 3:1–17

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Romans 16:17–19

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 5:5–6

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 →

Proverbs 4:16

For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

Titus 1:16

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Philippians 2:1–30

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

Proverbs 22:24–25

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: — read the full passage →

Psalms 36:1–3

An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.” — read the full passage →

Ephesians 6:4

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Matthew 7:1–5

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

Matthew 7:16

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Matthew 18:15–17

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

John 3:19

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

1 John 2:1–29

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 5:11–13

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Philippians 2:3

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Acts 12:21–23

On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them. — read the full passage →

James 1:1–27

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Galatians 5:26

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

Romans 12:3

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.

2 Timothy 3:1–5

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Mark 7:21–23

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →

Proverbs 2:16–22

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words; — read the full passage →

Matthew 10:37

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Luke 20:46–47

“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; — read the full passage →

Ezekiel 28:17

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.

Psalms 17:1–15

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips. — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:1–25

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 1:7

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

John 3:30

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Hosea 2:1–13

“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’ — read the full passage →

Daniel 4:28–31

All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar. — read the full passage →

Zechariah 7:1–14

In the fourth year of king Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. — read the full passage →

3 John 1:9

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.

1 John 2:16

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.

Ezekiel 36:24–27

For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. — read the full passage →

2 Chronicles 32:25

But Hezekiah didn’t render again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

James 3:16

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Isaiah 14:13–14

You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! — read the full passage →

Galatians 4:17

They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

Revelation 21:8

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.”

Job 21:13

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

2 Timothy 3:2–4

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 12:20–21

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots; — read the full passage →

James 4:6

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Obadiah 1:3

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?’

Daniel 3:1–30

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 4:1–31

“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed; — read the full passage →

Luke 16:1–18:43

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

Luke 9:23

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,and follow me.

Psalms 75:1–10

We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works. — read the full passage →

Jude 1:1–25

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

3 John 1:9–10

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say. — read the full passage →

Philippians 1:14–20

and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 24:1–23

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Malachi 3:1–18

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 6:9–11

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 →

1 Timothy 5:1–25

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:4–5

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

James 3:14–16

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 11:2–26

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 29:23

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

2 Timothy 3:2

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Luke 18:9–14

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →

Genesis 3:1–24

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

Matthew 23:12

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Proverbs 28:10–30:17

Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good. — read the full passage →

Psalms 22:24

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

2 Peter 2:22

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

1 Samuel 15:17

Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

Micah 2:1–3:12

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 21:1–31

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires. — read the full passage →

Psalms 10:1–15:5

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 3:2–5

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, — read the full passage →

Luke 14:10–14

But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:4–6

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 49:22

Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Proverbs 27:2

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Proverbs 14:1–16:33

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands. — read the full passage →

John 8:1–59

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

Matthew 23:1–39

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Proverbs 26:1–27:27

Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 19:19–20:18

A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again. — read the full passage →

Job 14:22–15:21

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.” — read the full passage →

Revelation 18:3–19:10

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.” — read the full passage →

Romans 12:1–21

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 17:1–18:24

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. — read the full passage →

2 Thessalonians 1:11–2:13

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power; — read the full passage →

Romans 1:1–2:29

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

John 3:16–17

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 →

Obadiah 1:1–21

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle. — read the full passage →

Ezekiel 16:1–63

Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Isaiah 65:1–25

“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask; I am found by those who didn’t seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name. — read the full passage →

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