06/12/2023

[F]or in pride is destruction and much trouble, and in lewdness is decay… —Tobit 4:13Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. —Proverbs 16:5

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. —Proverbs 16:18A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. —Proverbs 29:23

For many great miseries shall be done to them that in the latter time shall dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride. —2 Esdras 8:50

Pride is hateful before God and man: and by both doth one commit iniquity. —Ecclesiasticus 10:7

The beginning of pride is when one departeth from God, and his heart is turned away from his Maker. —Ecclesiasticus 10:12

For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall pour out abomination… —Ecclesiasticus 10:13Neither spared he the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for their pride. —Ecclesiasticus 16:8

Lord God of heaven, behold their pride, and pity the low estate of our nation, and look upon the face of those that are sanctified unto thee this day. —Judith 6:19

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. —Psalms 10:4

They come against us in much pride and iniquity to destroy us, and our wives and children, and to spoil us. —1 Maccabees 3:20

Here’s how pride turns out:

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. —Malachi 4:1