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Humility Tears Down the Fortress of Pride

Ego builds a cardboard fortress that humility must, every day, tear down.

Scripture

2 Chronicles 7:14
Psalm 138:6
Proverbs 11:2
Proverbs 16:18
Proverbs 18:12
Proverbs 29:23
Isaiah 2:11–12
Daniel 4:37
Daniel 5:22
Obadiah 1:3
Habakkuk 2:4
Zephaniah 2:3
Matthew 5:3
Matthew 23:12
Luke 14:11
Luke 18:14
John 3:30
Ephesians 4:2
1 Timothy 3:6
James 4:6
James 4:10
1 Peter 5:5–6

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