8805 pride, results of
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The real nature of pride can be seen in the fact that it leads to many other evils and ends in destruction.

Pride leads to other forms of evil

Self-deception

Galatians 6:3 See also Deuteronomy 8:17-18; Isaiah 16:6; Isaiah 47:10; Jeremiah 49:16 pp Ob 3; 1 Corinthians 8:2; 1 Timothy 6:3-4

Spiritual blindness

Jeremiah 43:2 See also Deuteronomy 8:14; Nehemiah 9:16,29

A hard heart

Psalm 36:2 See also Psalm 10:3; Psalm 52:1; Daniel 5:20

A malicious spirit

Psalm 119:85 See also Psalm 73:8; Psalm 140:5

Contempt for others

Psalm 123:4 See also Psalm 119:51; Proverbs 21:24

Quarrelling

Proverbs 13:10

Violence

Psalm 73:6 See also Esther 3:5-6; Psalm 86:14

Injustice

Psalm 119:78 See also Psalm 56:2

Oppression

Psalm 10:2 See also Psalm 119:122; Habakkuk 2:4-5

Contempt for God

Psalm 10:4 See also 2 Kings 19:22

Pride may be accompanied by temporary prosperity

Psalm 73:3 See also Psalm 10:5

Pride ends in disaster

Proverbs 16:5,18 See also 2 Samuel 22:28 pp Psalm 18:27; Job 40:11-12; Psalm 31:23; Psalm 101:5; Proverbs 11:2; Proverbs 15:25; Proverbs 26:12; Proverbs 29:23; Isaiah 2:11-12,17; Isaiah 13:11; Isaiah 26:5; Zephaniah 3:11; Malachi 4:1; Luke 1:51-52; 1 Timothy 3:6

Examples of the proud being humbled

Pharaoh:

Exodus 14:28; Nehemiah 9:10 2 Chronicles 26:16 Uzziah

The king of Assyria:

2 Chronicles 32:21; Isaiah 10:12,16 2 Chronicles 32:25 Hezekiah; Esther 7:10 Haman; Isaiah 3:16-17 the women of Zion

The king of Babylon:

Isaiah 13:19; Isaiah 14:11-15 Isaiah 23:9; Isaiah 25:10-12 Moab; Isaiah 28:1-3 Samaria

Babylon:

Isaiah 47:10-11; Jeremiah 50:31-32

Judah and Jerusalem:

Jeremiah 13:9; Ezekiel 7:24 Ezekiel 16:49-50 Sodom

The king of Tyre:

Ezekiel 28:5-9,17

Egypt:

Ezekiel 30:6; Ezekiel 32:12 Daniel 4:30-33 Nebuchadnezzar; Daniel 5:30 Belshazzar; Amos 6:8; Zephaniah 2:15 Nineveh; Zechariah 9:6; Zechariah 10:11 Assyria; Matthew 11:23 Capernaum; Acts 12:21-23 Herod; Revelation 18:7-8 Babylon the Great

See also

5575  talk, idle
5848  exaggeration
5879  humiliation
8213  confidence
8478  self-examination
8710  atheism
8782  mockery
8801  presumption
8823  self-righteousness



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