2 Chronicles 25:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You say, ‘See, I have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. Now stay at home; why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 25:20

But Amaziah would not listen—it was God’s doing, in order to hand them over because they had sought the gods of Edom.

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he had become strong he grew proud, to his destruction. For he acted unfaithfully toward the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to make offering on the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 32:25

But Hezekiah did not respond according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 35:21

But Neco sent envoys to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I am not coming against you today but against the house with which I am at war, and God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, so that he will not destroy you.”

Proverbs 13:10

By insolence the empty-headed person makes strife, but wisdom is with those who take advice.

Proverbs 16:18

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

Proverbs 18:6

A fool’s lips bring strife, and a fool’s mouth invites a flogging.

Proverbs 20:3

It is honorable to refrain from strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.

Proverbs 26:17

Like someone who takes a passing dog by the ears is one who meddles in the quarrel of another.

Proverbs 28:25

The greedy person stirs up strife, but whoever trusts in the Lord will be enriched.

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus says the Lord: Do not let the wise boast in their wisdom; do not let the mighty boast in their might; do not let the wealthy boast in their wealth;

Daniel 11:12

When the multitude has been carried off, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall overthrow tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.

Habakkuk 2:4

Look at the proud! Their spirit is not right in them, but the righteous live by their faithfulness.

Luke 14:31

Or what king, going out to wage war against another king, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

1 Corinthians 1:29

so that no one might boast in the presence of God.

Deuteronomy 8:14

then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,

James 4:6

But God gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”