1 Timothy 3:6

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Summary

1 Timothy 3:6

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Novice

1 Corinthians 3:1

Hebrews 5:12

1 Peter 2:2

Lest

The condemnation

General references

Numbers 4:35

Proverbs 16:18

Bible References

Novice

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the

elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

like newborn babies, long for the

pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

Lest

then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.

You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Enjoy your glory and stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you, even you, would fall, and Judah with you?”

But when he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to the Lord his God, for he entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

But Hezekiah gave no return for the benefit he received, because his heart was proud; therefore wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.

Pride goes before destruction,

And a haughty spirit before stumbling.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,

But humility goes before honor.

A man’s pride will bring him low,
But a humble spirit will obtain honor.

For the Lord of hosts will have a day of reckoning
Against everyone who is proud and lofty
And against everyone who is lifted up,
That he may be abased.

Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge

makes arrogant, but love edifies.

Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!

You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

The condemnation

“How you have fallen from heaven,
O

star of the morning, son of the dawn!

You have been cut down to the earth,
You who have weakened the nations!

And He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

General references

from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tent of meeting.

Pride goes before destruction,

And a haughty spirit before stumbling.