Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the str
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.
The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and of the people of Jerusalem may
So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LOR
Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I
My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
Jonathan said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the outpost of these uncircumcised men. Pe
if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed;
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundar
Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuou
This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealt
the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my po
Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. H
“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a
not by works, so that no one can boast.
But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in tha
The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.