Matthew 4:9

The devil promises everything if Jesus will fall down and worship him. It lays bare Satan's true aim: to be worshiped in God's place.

Cross-references · 20

• 2 Cor 4:4in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• Rev 19:10I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”
• Rev 22:8–9Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.
• John 16:11about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
• Dan 5:18–19You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
• Ps 72:11Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.
• 1 Cor 10:20–21But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
• Jer 27:5–6‘I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.
• 1 Tim 3:6not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
• Dan 5:26–28This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end;
• Ps 113:7–8He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
• Prov 8:15By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
• Dan 4:32You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.”
• John 12:31Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
• John 13:3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,
• 1 Sam 2:7–8Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
• Rev 19:16He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
• John 14:30I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
• Dan 2:37–38You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;
• Matt 26:15and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

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