1 Samuel 2:3
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Context
This verse from 1 Samuel Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. Hannah's Song of Thanksgiving exalts God who reverses fortunes—lifting the poor and humbling the proud—in terms that anticipate the Magnificat. Meanwhile, Eli's sons Hophni and Phinehas are corrupt—taking more than their priestly portion and sleeping with the women serving at …
Other Translations
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.
Ye multiply not--ye speak haughtily--The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.
Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.
Cross References
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on …
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and …
And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth …
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing …
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which …
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in …
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against …
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I …