28 Bible Verses about Pride, Examples Of

and love the best seats at a dinner party or in the synagogues, and like to be bowed to in places of public resort, and to be addressed by men as 'Rabbi.'

Moreover in the course of His teaching He said, "Be on your guard against the Scribes who like to walk about in long robes and to be bowed to in places of public resort, and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues and at dinner parties,

"Beware of the Scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and love to be bowed to in places of public resort and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues or at a dinner party;

Alas for you Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues, and you like to be bowed to in places of public resort.

Now for some time past there had been a man named Simon living there, who had been practising magic and astonishing the Samaritans, pretending that he was more than human.

She has freely glorified herself and revelled in luxury; equally freely administer torment to her, and woe. For in her heart she boasts, saying, 'I sit enthroned as Queen: no widow am I: I shall never know sorrow.'

"All may stumble and fail," said Peter, "but I never will." "In solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that this very night, before the cock crows, you will three times disown me." "Even if I must die with you," declared Peter, "I will never disown you." In like manner protested all the disciples.

"All may stumble and fall," said Peter, "yet I never will." "I solemnly tell you," replied Jesus, "that to-day--this night--before the cock crows twice, you yourself will three times disown me." "Even if I must die with you," declared Peter again and again, "I will never disown you." In like manner protested also all the disciples.

"Master," replied Peter, "with you I am ready to go both to prison and to death."

"Master," asked Peter again, "why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life on your behalf.

(For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)

While boasting of their wisdom they became utter fools,

Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness?

Let no one deceive himself. If any man imagines that he is wise, compared with the rest of you, with the wisdom of the present age, let him become "foolish" so that he may be wise.

Let no one in any way deceive you, for that day cannot come without the coming of the apostasy first, and the appearing of the man of sin, the son of perdition, who sets himself against, and exalts himself above, every so-called 'god' or object of worship, and goes the length of taking his seat in the very temple of God, giving it out that he himself is God.

When you give in charity, never blow a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and streets in order that their praises may be sung by men. I solemnly tell you that they already have their reward.

And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men; for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large,

and who swallow up the property of widows and then mask their wickedness by making long prayers: these men will receive far heavier punishment."

who swallow up the property of widows and mask their wickedness by making long prayers. They will be punished far more severely than others."

To all this the Pharisees listened, bitterly jeering at Him; for they were lovers of money. "You are they," He said to them, "who boast of their own goodness before men, but God sees your hearts; for that which holds a proud position among men is detestable in God's sight.

And to some who relied on themselves as being righteous men, and looked down upon all others, He addressed this parable.

These words were heard by those of the Pharisees who were present, and they asked Him, "Are *we* also blind?" "If you were blind," answered Jesus, "you would have no sin; but as a matter of fact you boast that you see. So your sin remains!"

But he, desiring to justify himself, said, "But what is meant by my 'fellow man'?"

"We are descendants of Abraham," they answered, "and have never at any time been in slavery to any one. What do those words of yours mean, 'You shall become free'?"

"You," they replied, "were wholly begotten and born in sin, and do *you* teach *us*?" And they put him out of the synagogue.

And since you claim the name of Jew, and find rest and satisfaction in the Law, and make your boast in God, and know the supreme will, and can test things that differ--being a man who receives instruction from the Law-- and have persuaded yourself that, as for you, you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,read more.
a schoolmaster for the dull and ignorant, a teacher of the young, because in the Law you possess an outline of real knowledge and an outline of the truth:

Why, who gives you your superiority, my brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? And if you really did receive it, why boast as if this were not so?

You say, I am rich, and have wealth stored up, and I stand in need of nothing; and you do not know that if there is a wretched creature it is *you* -- pitiable, poor, blind, naked.