Bible Verses About Promotion: General references

For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, cometh lifting up.

But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.

He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:

From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up the needy from the dunghill;

That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.