“Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? / I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.”
Bible
“Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.”
“For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.”
“Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.”
“I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.”
“Surely (as for) those who are in opposition to Allah and His Apostle; they shall be among the most abased.”
quran
“Abasement is made to cleave to them wherever they are found, except under a covenant with Allah and a covenant with men, and they have become deserving of wrath from Allah, and humiliation is made to cleave to them; this is because they disbelieved in the communications of Allah and slew the prophets unjustly; this is because they disobeyed and exceeded the limits.”
