Bible verses about "self-importance" | Wycliffe

¹⁸ Pride goith bifore sorewe; and the spirit schal be enhaunsid byfor fallyng.

¹² A! Lucifer, that risidist eerli, hou feldist thou doun fro heuene; thou that woundist folkis, feldist doun togidere in to erthe. ¹³ Which seidist in thin herte, Y schal stie in to heuene, Y schal enhaunse my seete aboue the staris of heuene; Y schal sitte in the hil of testament, in the sidis of the north. ¹⁴ Y schal stie on the hiynesse of cloudis; Y schal be lijk the hiyeste. ¹⁵ Netheles thou schalt be drawun doun to helle, in to the depthe of the lake.

¹⁰ And anoon bi niyt britheren leten Silas go in to Beroan. And whanne thei camen thidur, thei entriden in to the synagoge of the Jewis. ¹¹ But these weren the worthier of hem that ben at Thessolonik, whiche resseyueden the word with al desire, eche dai sekinge scripturis, if these thingis hadden hem so.

³¹ Now is the doom of the world, now the prince of this world schal be cast out.

⁸ For bi grace ye ben sauyd bi feith, and this not of you; for it is the yifte of God, ⁹ not of werkis, that no man haue glorie.

³ For Y seie, bi the grace that is youun to me, to alle that ben among you, that ye sauere no more than it bihoueth to sauere, but for to sauere to sobrenesse; and to ech man, as God hath departid the mesure of feith.

⁸ Be ye sobre, and wake ye, for youre aduersarie, the deuel, as a rorynge lioun goith aboute, sechinge whom he schal deuoure.

² coueitouse, hiy of bering, proude, blasfemeris, not obedient to fadir and modir, vnkynde,

¹⁶ For God louede so the world, that he yaf his `oon bigetun sone, that ech man that bileueth in him perische not, but haue euerlastynge lijf.