PRIDE
WORD DEFINITIONS:
Hebrew-
geah = pride
gaavah =
rising or excellency
gaon =
pride, rising, arrogance or excellency
geuth =
rising or excellency
gobah =
height, loftiness, haughtiness
gevah =
lifting up
zadon =
presumption
zud = act
proudly, presume
rokes =
entanglement
shachats =
pride
athaq = stiffness, insolence
Greek-
shachats = pride, vain boasting or glory
huperephania
= arrogance
OLD TESTAMENT:
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Genesis
3:1-24 “Now the serpent was more subtil(crafty and
deceiving)than any beast of the field which the Lord God had
made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said,
Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Ye shall
not surely die: ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil. Adam: The
woman thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the
tree, and I did eat. Eve: The
serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.”
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Leviticus
26:19 “And I will break the pride
of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your
earth as brass:”
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I Samuel
17:28 “And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he
spake unto the man; and Eliabl’s anger was kindled against
David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? And with whom
hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy
pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for
thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.”
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I Samuel 2:3
“Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not
arrogance come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a
God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.”
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II Chronicles
32:26 “Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for
the pride of his heart, both he and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord came not
upon them in the days of Hezekiah.”
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Job 33:17
“That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide
pride from man.”
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Job 35:12
“There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the
pride of evil men.”
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Job 41:15, 43
“His scales are his pride, shut up together
as with a close seal. He beholdeth all high things: he is a king
over all the children of pride.”
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Psalms 10:2,
4 “The wicked in his pride doth
persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they
have imagined. The wicked, through the pride
of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all
his thoughts.”
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Psalms 31:20
“Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the
pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in
a pavilion from the strife of tongues.”
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Psalms 36:11
“Let not the foot of pride come against me,
and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.”
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Psalms 59:12
“For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them
even be taken in their pride: and for
cursing and lying which they speak.”
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Psalms 73:6
“Therefore pride compasseth them about as a
chain; violence covereth them as a garment.”
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Proverbs 8:13
“The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride,
and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I
hate.”
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Proverbs 11:2
“When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but
with the lowly is wisdom.”
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Proverbs
13:10 “Only by pride cometh
contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.”
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Proverbs 14:3
“In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride:
but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.”
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Proverbs
16:18 “Pride goeth before
destruction, and an houghty spirit before a fall.”
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Proverbs
29:23 “A man’s pride shall bring
him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.”
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Isaiah 9:9
“And all the people shall know, even Epharim and the inhabitant
of Samaria, that say in the pride and
stoutness of heart,”
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Isaiah 13:11
“And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for
their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy
of the proud to cease, and will lay low the
haughtiness of the terrible.”
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Isaiah
14:13-14 “For thou has said in thine heart, I will
ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the
heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”
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Isaiah 16:6
“We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of
his haughtiness, and his pride, and his
wrath: but his lies shall not be so.”
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Isaiah 23:9
“The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the
pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all
the honorable of the earth.”
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Isaiah 25:11
“And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he
that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall
bring down their pride together with the
spoils of their hands.”
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Isaiah 28:1,
3 “Woe to the crown of pride, to
the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is fading
flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that
are overcome with wine! The crown of pride,
the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:”
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Jeremiah
13:9, 17 “Thus saith the Lord, After this manner will
I mar the pride of Judah, and the great
pride of Jerusalem. But if ye will not hear it,
my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride;
and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because
the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.”
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Jeremiah
48:29 “We have heard the pride
of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his
loftiness, and his arrogancy,
and his pride, and the
haughtiness of his heart.”
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Jeremiah
49:16 “Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the
pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest
in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill:
though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will
bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.”
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Ezekiel 7:10
“Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth;
the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.”
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Ezekiel
16:49, 56 “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy
sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and
abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither
did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. For thy
sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy
pride,”
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Ezekiel 30:6
“Thus saith the Lord; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall;
and the pride of her power shall come down:
from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword,
saith the Lord God.”
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Daniel 4:37
“Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of
heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and
those that walk in pride he is able to
abase.”
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Daniel 5:20
“But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in
pride, he was desposed from his kingly throne,
and they took his glory from him:”
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Hosea 5:5
“And the pride of Israel doth testify to
his face: there for shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their
iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.”
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Hosea 7:10
“And the pride of Israel testifieth to his
face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him
for all this.”
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Obadiah 1:3
“The pride of thine heart hath deceived
thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose
habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me
down to the ground?”
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Zephaniah
2:10 “This shall they have for their pride,
because they have reproached and magnified themselves against
the people of the Lord of hosts.”
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Zephaniah
3:11 “In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all
thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then
I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in
thy pride, and thou shalt no more be
haughty because of my holy mountain.”
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Zechariah 9:6
“And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the
pride of the Philistines.”
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Zechariah
10:11 “And he shall pass through the sea with
affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the
deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride
of Assayria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt
shall depart away.”
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Zechariah
11:3 “there is a voice of the howling of the
shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of
young lions; for the pride of Jordan is
spoiled.”
NEW TESTAMENT:
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Mark 7:21-23
“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil
thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, and evil eye,
blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these
evil things come from within, and defile the man.”
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I Timothy 3:6
“Not a novice, lest being lifted up with
pride he fall into the condemnation of the
devil.”
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I John
2:15-16 “Love not the world, neither the things that
are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the
Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of
the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride
of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
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