Ezekiel 28:5
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By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.
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“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
“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 god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but enjoy the company of the lowly. Do not be conceited.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.