Nave’s Topical Bible
Presumption
77 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
Exodus 5:2; Exodus 14:11-12; Exodus 17:7; Numbers 15:30; Numbers 16:41; Numbers 21:5; Deuteronomy 6:16; Deuteronomy 29:19-20; 1 Kings 20:28; 1 Kings 22:24; Job 15:25; Psalms 19:13; Psalms 131:1; Proverbs 18:12-13; Proverbs 25:6-7; Isaiah 5:18-25; Isaiah 10:15; Isaiah 14:13-14; Isaiah 28:14-18,22; Isaiah 29:15-16,20; Isaiah 45:9-10; Isaiah 58:3; Isaiah 65:5; Jeremiah 23:34; Matthew 4:5-7; Luke 4:9-11; Luke 12:18-20; Luke 14:7-11; Luke 18:11-12; Romans 1:32; Romans 9:20-21; 1 Corinthians 10:9-12; 2 Thessalonians 2:3; James 4:13-16; 2 Peter 2:10-11
- INSTANCES OF
- Satan, when he said to Eve, "You will surely not die,"
- Builders of Babel
- Abraham, in questioning about Sodom
- Moses, in rebuking Jehovah
- Nadab and Abihu
- Israelites, in ascending to the top of the hill against the Amalekites
- Complaining at Meribah
- In reviling God
- Korah, Dathan, and Abiram
- Saul, in sacrificing
- Sparing the Amalekites
- Men of Beth-shemesh
- Uzzah, in steadying the ark of the covenant
- David's anger on account of Uzzah's death
- David, in numbering Israel
- Jeroboam
- Ben-hadad
- Uzziah
- Sennacherib
- Job, in cursing the day of his birth
- Reproved by Eliphaz
- Jonah
- Peter
- In objecting to Jesus' statement that Jesus must be killed
- In reflecting upon his knowledge when he asked, amid a throng, who touched Jesus
- In objecting to Jesus washing Peter's feet
- In asking Jesus, "What will this man do?"
- The disciples, in rebuking those who brought little children To Jesus
- The disciples, in their indignation at the anointing of Jesus
- Reproving Jesus
- James and John, in desiring to call down fire upon the Samaritans
- Those who reviled Jesus
- Theudas
- The sons of Sceva
- Diotrephes
See MOCKING
See PRIDE
Bible verses about “Presumption”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Exodus 5:2And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
- Exodus 14:11And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
- Exodus 14:12Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
- Exodus 17:7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?
- Numbers 15:30But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
- Numbers 16:41But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.
- Numbers 21:5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
- Deuteronomy 6:16Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
- Deuteronomy 29:19And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
- Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
- 1 Kings 20:28And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the Lord, Because the Syrians have said, The Lord is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
- 1 Kings 22:24But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee?
- Job 15:25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
- Psalms 19:13Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
- Psalms 131:1Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
- Proverbs 18:12Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
- Proverbs 18:13He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
- Proverbs 25:6Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
- Proverbs 25:7For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
- Isaiah 5:18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
- Isaiah 5:19That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
- Isaiah 5:20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
- Isaiah 5:21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
- Isaiah 5:22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
- Isaiah 5:23Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
- Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 5:25Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Isaiah 10:15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
- Isaiah 14:13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
- Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
- Isaiah 28:14Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 28:15Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
- Isaiah 28:16Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
- Isaiah 28:17Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
- Isaiah 28:18And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
- Isaiah 28:22Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
- Isaiah 29:15Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
- Isaiah 29:16Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
- Isaiah 29:20For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
- Isaiah 45:9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?