Therefore let any one who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, beware lest you be carried away with the error of lawless men and lose your own stability.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
Blessed is the man who fears the Lord always; but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
Take heed then how you hear; for to him who has will more be given, and from him who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.”
See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.