You save those who are humble, but you humble those who are proud.

I will get rid of anyone who whispers evil things about someone else; I will not tolerate anyone who is proud and arrogant.

(SEE 6:16)

Wicked people are controlled by their conceit and arrogance, and this is sinful.

There are people who think they are so good---oh, how good they think they are!

A day is coming when human pride will be ended and human arrogance destroyed. Then the LORD alone will be exalted.

Their prejudices will be held against them. They sin as openly as the people of Sodom did. They are doomed, and they have brought it on themselves.

The LORD looks down from heaven at us humans to see if there are any who are wise, any who worship him.

When you said, "Come worship me," I answered, "I will come, LORD."

"Who is the LORD?" the king demanded. "Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD; and I will not let Israel go."

be sure that you do not become proud and forget the LORD your God who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves.

These are the ones who rejected God and believed that he could do nothing to them.

If I have more, I might say that I do not need you. But if I am poor, I might steal and bring disgrace on my God.

People of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Have I been like a desert to you, like a dark and dangerous land? Why, then, do you say that you will do as you please, that you will never come back to me?

"But you, his son, have not humbled yourself, even though you knew all this.

You acted against the Lord of heaven and brought in the cups and bowls taken from his Temple. You, your noblemen, your wives, and your concubines drank wine out of them and praised gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone---gods that cannot see or hear and that do not know anything. But you did not honor the God who determines whether you live or die and who controls everything you do.

Turn to the LORD, all you humble people of the land, who obey his commands. Do what is right, and humble yourselves before the LORD. Perhaps you will escape punishment on the day when the LORD shows his anger.

Fools say to themselves, "There is no God!" They are all corrupt, and they have done terrible things; there is no one who does what is right.

Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They are all corrupt, and they have done terrible things; there is no one who does what is right.

At that time you were apart from Christ. You were foreigners and did not belong to God's chosen people. You had no part in the covenants, which were based on God's promises to his people, and you lived in this world without hope and without God.

When the LORD saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,

You are always planning something evil, and you can hardly wait to do it. You never hesitate to murder innocent people. You leave ruin and destruction wherever you go,

I have always been ready to welcome my people, who stubbornly do what is wrong and go their own way.

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?

For from the inside, from your heart, come the evil ideas which lead you to do immoral things, to rob, kill,

Repent, then, of this evil plan of yours, and pray to the Lord that he will forgive you for thinking such a thing as this.

They know God, but they do not give him the honor that belongs to him, nor do they thank him. Instead, their thoughts have become complete nonsense, and their empty minds are filled with darkness.

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.