1 Timothy 3:6

Qualifications For Overseers

⁵ For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church? ⁶ He must not be a recent convert, so that he won't become arrogant and fall into the Devil's condemnation. ⁷ He must be well thought of by outsiders, so he doesn't fall into disgrace and the trap set for him by the Devil.

Evil One

Lifted Up

Devil

Sin

1 Timothy 6:4

he is a conceited person and does not understand anything. He has an unhealthy craving for arguments and debates. This produces jealousy, rivalry, slander, evil suspicions,

Deuteronomy 8:14

then you will become arrogant. You'll neglect the LORD your God,

Deuteronomy 17:20

He is not to exalt himself over his relatives, nor turn aside from the commandment neither to the right nor to the left so that he and his sons may reign long in Israel."

2 Kings 14:10

You just defeated Edom and you're arrogant. Bask in your victory and stay home. Why incite trouble so that you yes, you! fall, along with Judah with you?"

2 Chronicles 26:16

But after he had become strong, in his arrogance he acted corruptly and became unfaithful to the LORD his God, and he dared to enter the LORD's Temple to burn incense on the incense altar.

2 Chronicles 32:25

But Hezekiah's response wasn't commensurate with what had been done for him because he was arrogant in heart, so wrath came upon him, upon Judah, and upon Jerusalem.

Proverbs 16:18-19

Pride precedes destruction; an arrogant spirit appears before a fall.

Proverbs 18:12

Before a man's downfall, his mind is arrogant, but humility precedes honor.

Proverbs 29:23

A person's pride will bring about his downfall, but the humble in spirit will gain honor.

Isaiah 2:12

"For the LORD of the Heavenly Armies has reserved a time to oppose all who are proud and haughty, and the self-exalting they will be humbled.

Isaiah 14:12-14

"How you have fallen from heaven, Day Star, son of the Dawn! How you have been thrown down to earth, you who laid low the nation!

Luke 10:18

He told them, "I watched Satan falling from heaven like lightning.

1 Corinthians 3:1

Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in the Messiah.

1 Corinthians 4:6-8

Brothers, I have applied all this to Apollos and myself for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what the Scriptures say. Then you will stop boasting about one person at the expense of another.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2 Corinthians 12:7

To keep me from becoming conceited because of the exceptional nature of these revelations, a thorn was given to me and placed in my body. It was Satan's messenger to keep on tormenting me so that I would not become conceited.

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

Hebrews 5:12-13

In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food.

1 Peter 2:2

Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.

1 Peter 5:5

In a similar way, you young people must submit to the elders. All of you must clothe yourselves with humility for the sake of each other, because: "God opposes the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble."

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into the lowest hell and imprisoned them in chains of deepest darkness, holding them for judgment;

Jude 1:6

He has also held in eternal chains those angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their assigned place. They are held in deepest darkness for judgment on the great day.