1 Timothy 3:6

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He must not be a new convert, lest, being elated by pride, he may fall under the sentence of the devil.

Cross References

2 Kings 14:10

You have struck and prevailed over Idumea. And your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your own glory, and be seated your own house. Why would you provoke evil, so that you would fall, and Judah with you?"

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up, even to his own destruction. And he neglected the Lord his God. And entering into the temple of the Lord, he intended to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 32:25

But he did not repay according to the benefits which he had received, for his heart was lifted up. And so wrath was brought against him, and against Judah and Jerusalem.

Proverbs 18:12

The heart of a man is exalted before it is crushed and humbled before it is glorified.

Proverbs 29:23

Humiliation follows the arrogant. And glory shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the Lord of hosts will prevail over all the proud and self-exalted, and over all the arrogant, and each one shall be humbled,

Daniel 11:12

And he will seize a multitude, and his heart will be exalted, and he will cast down many thousands, but he will not prevail.

Luke 10:18

And he said to them: "I was watching as Satan fell like lightning from heaven.

1 Corinthians 3:1

And so, brothers, I was not able to speak to you as if to those who are spiritual, but rather as if to those who are carnal. For you are like infants in Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but charity builds up.

2 Corinthians 12:7

And lest the greatness of the revelations should extol me, there was given to me a prodding in my flesh: an angel of Satan, who struck me repeatedly.

Deuteronomy 17:20

And so may his heart not become exalted with arrogance over his brothers, nor turn aside to the right or to the left, so that he and his sons may reign for a long time over Israel."

Deuteronomy 8:14

your heart might be lifted up, and you might not remember the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, from the house of servitude,

1 Timothy 3:7

And it is necessary for him also to have good testimony from those who are outside, so that he may not fall into disrepute and the snare of the devil.

1 Timothy 6:4

then he is arrogant, knowing nothing, yet languishing amid the questions and quarrels of words. From these arise envy, contention, blasphemy, evil suspicions:

2 Timothy 3:4

traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God,

1 Peter 2:2

Like newborn infants, desire the milk of reasonableness without guile, so that by this you may increase unto salvation,

1 Peter 5:5

Similarly, young persons, be subject to the elders. And infuse all humility among one another, for God resists the arrogant, but to the humble he gives grace.

2 Peter 2:4

For God did not spare those Angels who sinned, but instead delivered them, as if dragged down by infernal ropes, into the torments of the underworld, to be reserved unto judgment.

Jude 1:6

And truly, the Angels, who did not keep to their first place, but instead abandoned their own domiciles, he has reserved with perpetual chains under darkness, unto the great day of judgment.