Bible Verses About Presumption

Some time ago, there was a rebellion under Todah, who claimed to be somebody special; and a number of men, maybe four hundred, rallied behind him. But upon his being put to death, his whole following was broken up and came to nothing.

Then some of the Jewish exorcists who traveled from place to place tried to make use of the name of the Lord Yeshua in connection with people who had evil spirits. They would say, “I exorcise you by the Yeshua that Sha’ul is proclaiming!”

One time, seven sons of a Jewish cohen gadol named Skeva were doing this;

They know well enough God’s righteous decree that people who do such things deserve to die; yet not only do they keep doing them, but they applaud others who do the same.

Who are you, a mere human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, “Why did you make me this way?”

Or has the potter no right to make from a given lump of clay this pot for honorable use and that one for dishonorable?

And let us not put the Messiah to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

And don’t grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel.

These things happened to them as prefigurative historical events, and they were written down as a warning to us who are living in the acharit-hayamim.

Therefore, let anyone who thinks he is standing up be careful not to fall!

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For the Day will not come until after the Apostasy has come and the man who separates himself from Torah has been revealed, the one destined for doom.

He will oppose himself to everything that people call a god or make an object of worship; he will put himself above them all, so that he will sit in the Temple of God and proclaim that he himself is God.

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such-and-such a city, stay there a year trading and make a profit”!

You don’t even know if you will be alive tomorrow! For all you are is a mist that appears for a little while and then disappears.

Instead, you ought to say, “If Adonai wants it to happen, we will live” to do this or that.

especially those who follow their old natures in lust for filth and who despise authority. Presumptuous and self-willed, these false teachers do not tremble at insulting angelic beings;

whereas angels, though stronger and more powerful, do not bring before the Lord an insulting charge against them.

I wrote something to the congregation; but Diotrephes, who likes to be the macher among them, doesn’t recognize our authority.

For you keep saying, ‘I am rich, I have gotten rich, I don’t need a thing!’ You don’t know that you are the one who is wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked!

“Give her as much torment and sorrow as the glory and luxury she gave herself! For in her heart she says, ‘I sit a queen — I am not a widow, I will never see sorrow.’

“Therefore, her plagues will come in a single day — death, sorrow and famine; and she will be burned with fire, because Adonai, God, her Judge, is mighty”