Being Proud

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; neither his ear heavy, that it can’t hear: — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. — read the full passage →

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things found.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches; — read the full passage →

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. — read the full passage →

It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

“You shall not murder.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah, — read the full passage →

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

But Hezekiah didn’t render again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” — read the full passage →

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

“Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ — read the full passage →

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Yahweh, my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is no one who does good.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat, and walk’?”

In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;

For everything spoken by God is possible.”