Self-Exaltation

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Job 12:3 OT

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

• Ezekiel 31:10-14 OT

  “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; I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He…

• Obadiah 1:1 OT

  The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.

• Luke 14:7-11 NT

  He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you…

• 2 Corinthians 10:5 NT

  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 NT

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

• 2 Corinthians 10:18 NT

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

• Galatians 6:3 NT

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

• 2 Thessalonians 2:4 NT

  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.

• Exodus 9:17 OT

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

• Numbers 16:1-3 OT

  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. They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two…

• 2 Chronicles 32:9-19 OT

  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, Sennacherib king of Assyria says,…

• Ezekiel 28:2 OT

  “Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “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…

• Ezekiel 28:9 OT

  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.

• Daniel 4:30 OT

  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 OT

  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 OT

  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. You have praised the gods of silver and…

• Acts 8:9 NT

  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 12:20-23 NT

  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…