Bible Verses About Promotion: General references

For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

He also chose David 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 raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.