Proverbs 18:12

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Summary

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

Destruction

Acts 12:21

And

General references

1 Kings 20:18

Proverbs 16:18

Bible References

Destruction

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with the lowly is wisdom.

Pride [is] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

A man's pride shall bring him low, but he who is of a lowly spirit shall obtain honor.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters, and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man.

Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus says lord LORD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou have said, I am a god. I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet thou are man, and not God, though thou did set thy h

but have lifted up thyself against LORD of heaven. And they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them. And thou have praised the gods of silve

And at a set day Herod, having arrayed himself in royal apparel, and having sat on the tribunal, he made an oration to them.

And

The fear of LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor [is] humility.

Therefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.

And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God,

Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly.

General references

And he said, Whether they come out for peace, take them alive, or whether they come out for war, taken them alive.

Pride [is] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.