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«Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abase, abased, abasing, extol, extolled, extolling
«And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, / Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.»
«For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.»
«I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abase, abased, abasing, abound, be full, instructed
«For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abase, abased, abasing
«I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abase, abased, abasing
«Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? / I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abase, abased, abasing, exalted, preached, robbed, wages
«Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abase, abased, abasing, abroad, behold, rage, wrath
«FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.»
«Whoever exalts himself will be abased, and he who humbles himself will be exalted»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abase, abased, abasing, exalts, humbles

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