Matthew 23:12

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Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

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Jerusalem, Israel’s religious and political center, was the setting for Jesus’ public denunciation of religious pride in Matthew 23. His warning that the self-exalting will be humbled confronts leaders who claimed spiritual authority there

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