Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before the fall. Proverbs 16:18
1. What will pride do for him who cherishes it?
A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. Prov 29:23
2. How does the Lord regard the proud?
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. James 4:6
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. Ps 101:5
3 Will Jesus dwell with the proud?
Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off. Ps 138:6
4. Can those who are filled with pride be truly wise?
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 1Tim 6:4
5. Why should we not indulge in pride?
An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. Prov 21:4
6. Will the Lord bless the proud?
Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Ps 40:4
7. What will be one of the sins of the last days?
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 2Tim 3:1-2
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. Isa 3:5
8. How are the proud generally regarded at the present time?
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. Mal 3:15
9. What is the King of Heaven able to do to the proud?
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. “abase = overthrow”
10. What does the prophet say will be their fate?
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Mal 4:1
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