2 Corinthians 10:5

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2 Corinthians 10:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

4 The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

5 We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.

7 You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that we belong to Christ just as much as he does.

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Luke 1:51

He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

Acts 4:25

You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Acts 4:26

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’

Romans 1:21

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

1 Corinthians 1:19

For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

1 Corinthians 1:27

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

1 Corinthians 1:28

He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,

1 Corinthians 1:29

so that no one may boast in His presence.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”

Exodus 9:16

But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

Exodus 9:17

Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.

2 Kings 19:22

Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

2 Kings 19:28

Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’

Job 40:11

Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.

Job 40:12

Look on every proud man and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.

Job 42:6

Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

Psalms 10:4

In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.

Psalms 18:27

For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.

Isaiah 2:11

The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:12

For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—

Isaiah 2:17

So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

Isaiah 60:14

The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 17:24

Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’”

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.

Daniel 5:24

Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

Daniel 5:25

Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.

Daniel 5:26

And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

Daniel 5:27

TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

Daniel 5:28

PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 5:29

Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and proclaimed him the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,

Acts 9:4

He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”

Acts 9:5

“Who are You, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” He replied.

Acts 9:6

“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

Philippians 3:4

though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

Philippians 3:5

circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

Philippians 3:6

as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.

Philippians 3:7

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

Philippians 3:9

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

2 Thessalonians 2:8

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.

Matthew 11:29

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Matthew 11:30

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Romans 7:23

But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

Genesis 8:21

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Psalms 139:2

You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

Proverbs 15:26

The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.

Proverbs 24:9

A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Psalms 18:44

When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.

Psalms 110:2

The LORD extends Your mighty scepter from Zion: “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

Psalms 110:3

Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.

Romans 1:5

Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.

Romans 16:26

but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith —

Hebrews 5:9

And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

1 Peter 1:2

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

1 Peter 1:15

But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,

1 Peter 1:22

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.