..too much SELF-confidence, puffed up, being overly SELF-assured. Not good for anyone. In a good sense I am proud of my wife Liney and son Christian-Andraes..but I really don't want the other type of pride.
Today, I pray that you will be bless-able and greatly blessed as you opt to ditch pride and honestly continue on in the word if God, believer.
A former DTS Seminary Prof and elder of mine named Howard Hendricks from a Christian church my wife and I went to some 15 minutes north of us here in Dallas.... used to carry around a leather notebook. And why’d he do that? Not totally sure. He probably had multiple purposes and things to remind himself about in it. The real deal, he lived what he taught. A very smart, spiritually sound and successful author! Many really miss him.
One thing. In it he had jotted down at one point over 100 student’s names who had sadly failed in the ministry due to sexual sins.
When asked, what was the one thing that Hendricks noticed that they all had in common? He said it was pride.
Proverbs 11:2 - When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Proverbs 16:18 - Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 29:23 - One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
Proverbs 8:13 - The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
James 4:6 - But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Proverbs 16:5 - Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
1 John 2:16 - For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.
Galatians 6:3 - For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Psalm 10:4 - In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
Proverbs 18:12 - Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
Romans 12:16 - Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
Proverbs 13:10 - By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
Philippians 2:3 - Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Proverbs 27:2 - Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Galatians 6:4 - But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
Proverbs 26:12 - Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Psalm 59:12 - For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,
1 Peter 5:5 - Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Obadiah 1:3 - The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
Luke 18:9-14 - He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’”
Proverbs 21:4 - Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
Jeremiah 9:23 - Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Romans 12:3 - For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 - Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Isaiah 2:11 - The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
Psalm 138:6 - For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.
James 4:10 - Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Leviticus 26:19 - And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
Proverbs 21:24 - “Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.
Proverbs 16:19 - It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Isaiah 14:12-15 - “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.
2 Chronicles 26:16 - But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.
Ezekiel 28:17 - Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
Psalm 73:6 - Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
1 Timothy 3:6 - He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Revelation 3:17 - For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
Psalm 10:3-4 - For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord. In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
Psalm 10:2 - In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
Proverbs 3:34 - Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.
Daniel 5:20 - But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.
Deuteronomy 8:14 - Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,
Ezekiel 28:1-26 - The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god— you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you; by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries; by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth— ...
Isaiah 23:9 - The Lord of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.
Psalm 101:5 - Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.
Isaiah 14:12-14 - “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
Isaiah 16:6 - We have heard of the pride of Moab— how proud he is!— of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; in his idle boasting he is not right.
Daniel 4:37 - Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Isaiah 13:11 - I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
