Proverbs 25:14

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Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given.

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  • Prov 20:6 : 6 Many claim to have steadfast love, but a faithful person who can find?
  • Luke 14:11 : 11 'For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.'
  • Luke 18:10-14 : 10 'Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.' 11 'The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, 'God, I thank you that I am not like other people: robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.' 12 'I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' 13 'But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven but beat his chest and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' 14 'I tell you that this man went home justified before God rather than the other. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.'
  • 2 Cor 11:13-18 : 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their deeds. 16 I repeat, let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me as you would a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 17 What I am saying, I do not say as from the Lord, but as if in foolishness, with this confidence of boasting. 18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.
  • 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
  • 2 Pet 2:15-19 : 15 They have abandoned the straight way and gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. 16 But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—a beast without speech—that spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness. 17 These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness has been reserved for them forever. 18 For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery. 19 They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them.
  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These are hidden reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you fearlessly, shepherding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted. 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These people are grumblers and complainers, living according to their own desires. Their mouths speak arrogant words, flattering others for their own advantage.
  • 1 Kgs 22:11 : 11 Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made iron horns, and he declared, 'This is what the LORD says: With these, you will gore the Arameans until they are completely destroyed.'

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