Ezekiel 28:17

His heart grew proud over his beauty and his wisdom became corrupted, so God casts him to the ground before kings. Pride in God-given gifts brings public humiliation.

Cross-references · 20

• Ezek 28:5By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
• Ezek 31:10Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
• Jas 4:6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
• Prov 16:18Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
• Luke 14:11For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
• Ezek 28:2Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
• Prov 11:2When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
• Ps 147:6The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
• Ezek 32:10Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
• Isa 19:11–13Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
• Ezek 28:7Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
• Rom 1:22–25Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Ezek 16:41And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
• Ezek 23:48Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
• 1 Cor 1:19–21For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
• Isa 14:9–11Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
• Jer 8:9The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
• Job 40:11–12Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
• Ezek 16:14–15And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
• Ps 73:18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

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