And you will eat, and you will be satisfied, and you will bless Yahweh your God because of the good land that he has given to you.
“Take care for yourself so that you not forget Yahweh your God by not keeping his commandments and his regulations and his statutes that I am commanding you today,
lest when you have eaten and you are satisfied and you have built good houses and you live in them,
and your herds and your flocks have multiplied, and you have accumulated silver and gold, and all that you have has multiplied,
then your heart becomes proud and you forget Yahweh your God, the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery,
the one leading you in the great and terrible desert infested with dangerous snakes and scorpions and parched ground, where there is no water, and the one bringing out water for you from flint rock,
the one feeding you manna in the desert, food that your ancestors did not know, in order to humble you and in order to test you so that he could do good to you in the future.
And you may think in your heart, ‘My strength and the might of my hand acquired this wealth for me.’
But you must remember Yahweh your God, for he is the one giving you strength to acquire wealth in order to confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors as it is today.
For rebellion is like the sin of divination;
arrogance is like iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh,
he has rejected you from being king!”
There are six things Yahweh hates,
and seven things are abominations of his soul:
haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
a devising heart, plans of deception,
feet that hurry to run to evil,
a false witness who breathes lies
and sends out discord between brothers.
Pride comes, then disgrace comes,
but wisdom is with the humble.
Only by insolence is strife set up,
and wisdom is with those who take advice.
Haughtiness of the eyes and pride of heart,
the lamp of the wicked are sin.
The pride of a person will bring him humiliation,
and the lowly of spirit will obtain honor.
Thus says Yahweh,
“The wise man must not boast in his wisdom,
and the warrior must not boast in his might,
the wealthy man must not boast in his wealth.
But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit became hard so as to act proudly, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and the glory was taken away from him.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are the meek,
because they will inherit the earth.
“And take care not to practice your righteousness before people to be seen by them; otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Therefore whenever you practice charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet in front of you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order that they may be praised by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!
But you, when you practice charitable giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
in order that your charitable giving may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
At that time the disciples came up to Jesus, saying, “Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
And calling a child to himself, he had him stand in their midst
and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you turn around and become like young children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven!
Therefore whoever humbles himself like this child, this person is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,
It will not be like this among you! But whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
and whoever wants to be most prominent among you must be your slave—
And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
And he also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and looked down on everyone else:
“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
The Pharisee stood and prayed these things with reference to himself: ‘God, I give thanks to you that I am not like other people—swindlers, unrighteous people, adulterers, or even like this tax collector!
I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all that I get.’
But the tax collector, standing far away, did not want even to raise his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that one! For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
For who concedes you superiority? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if indeed you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”
In the same way, younger men, be subject to the elders, and all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the right time,
“Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up at some other place—that one is a thief and a robber.
But the one who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
For this one the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
Whenever he sends out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
And they will do these things because they do not know the Father or me.