The Spirit Of Pride

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

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.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. — read the full passage →

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?

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

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

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

The proud and haughty man, “scoffer” is his name; he works in the arrogance of pride.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

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.”

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

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

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

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

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

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

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

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

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

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

For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.

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;

Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

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,

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.

He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh. — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! — read the full passage →

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

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

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

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 →

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

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.

We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →

then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to live there;

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. — read the full passage →

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

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.” — read the full passage →

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’ — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; — read the full passage →

and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are: — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

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 →

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet; — read the full passage →

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”