False Confidence in Man
8 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
- Psalm 33:16 No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
- Psalm 62:9 Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalm 118:8 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
- Psalm 146:3–4 Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save. …
- Isaiah 2:22 Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
- Jeremiah 17:5 This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
- Hosea 5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
- Hosea 7:11 So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove — calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.