You will eat your fill and then praise the Lord your God because of the good land he has given you.
Be sure you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today.
When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,
when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,
be sure you do not feel self-important and forget the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery,
and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and
fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
Be careful not to say, “My own ability and skill have gotten me this wealth.”
You must remember the Lord your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, even as he has to this day.
For rebellion is like the sin of divination,
and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
he has rejected you as king.”
There are six things that the Lord hates,
even seven things that are an abomination to him:
haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that are swift to run to evil,
a false witness who pours out lies,
and a person who spreads discord among family members.
When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with humility comes wisdom.
With pride comes only contention,
but wisdom is with the well-advised.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart –
the agricultural product of the wicked is sin.
A person’s pride will bring him low,
but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.
The Lord says,
“Wise people should not boast that they are wise.
Powerful people should not boast that they are powerful.
Rich people should not boast that they are rich.
And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.
Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.
But when you do your giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
so that your gift may be in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
At that time the disciples came to Jesus saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
He called a child, had him stand among them,
and said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
Whoever then humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
It must not be this way among you! Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,
and whoever wants to be first 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, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident 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 about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers – or even like this tax collector.
I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’
The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’
I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?
But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”
In the same way, you who are younger, 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.
And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand
“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.
They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger’s voice.”
They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.