SELF-EXALTATION

Passages on this topic · 43

• Exodus 9:17

  as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.

• Numbers 16:1

  Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.

• Numbers 16:2

  They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.

• Numbers 16:3

  They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

• 2 Chronicles 32:9

  After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 32:10

  Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, “In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem?

• 2 Chronicles 32:11

  Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’

• 2 Chronicles 32:12

  Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’

• 2 Chronicles 32:13

  Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?

• 2 Chronicles 32:14

  Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

• 2 Chronicles 32:15

  Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”

• 2 Chronicles 32:16

  His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

• 2 Chronicles 32:17

  He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”

• 2 Chronicles 32:18

  They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

• 2 Chronicles 32:19

  They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.

• Job 12:3

  But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

• Ezekiel 28:2

  Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —

• Ezekiel 28:9

  Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.

• Ezekiel 31:10

  Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

• Ezekiel 31:11

  I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

• Ezekiel 31:12

  Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

• Ezekiel 31:13

  On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;

• Ezekiel 31:14

  to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, even all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

• Daniel 4:30

  The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

• Daniel 5:20

  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:

• Daniel 5:23

  but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

• 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?’

• Obadiah 1:4

  Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

• Luke 14:7

  He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,

• Luke 14:8

  “When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,

• Luke 14:9

  and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.

• Luke 14:10

  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.

• Luke 14:11

  For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

• Acts 8:9

  But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

• Acts 12:20

  Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.

• Acts 12:21

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

• Acts 12:22

  The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”

• Acts 12:23

  Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

• 2 Corinthians 10:5

  throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

• 2 Corinthians 10:17

  But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

• 2 Corinthians 10:18

  For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

• Galatians 6:3

  For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:4

  he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.