26 Bible Verses about Pride, Examples Of
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and they like the best places at dinners and the front seats in the synagogues, and to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have men call them 'Rabbi.'
And in the course of his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes and to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at dinners??40 men that eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get a far heavier sentence!"
"Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes, and love to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets??47 men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get all the heavier sentence!"
Alas for you Pharisees! For you love to have the front seat in the synagogues and to be saluted with respect in public places.
There was a man named Simon in the town, who had been amazing the Samaritan people by practicing magic there, and who made great pretensions.
The more she has given herself to pride and luxury the more you must give her torture and grief. Because she says to herself, 'I sit on a throne; I am not a widow, I shall never have any sorrow,'
Peter answered, "If they all desert you, I will never do it!" Jesus said to him, "I tell you, tonight, before a cock crows, you will disown me three times!" Peter said to him, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you!" All the disciples said so too.
But Peter said to him, "Even if they all desert you, I will not!" Jesus said to him, "I tell you, this very night before the cock crows twice you yourself will disown me three times!" But he persisted vehemently, "If I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And they all said the same thing.
Peter said to him, "Master, I am ready to go to prison and to death with you!"
Peter said to him, "Master, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."
For all Athenians and all visitors there from abroad used to spend all their time telling or listening to something new.
Where now is your philosopher? Your scribe? Your reasoner of today? Has not God made a fool of the world's wisdom?
Let no one of you deceive himself. If any one of you imagines that he is wiser than the rest of you, in what this world calls wisdom, he had better become a fool, so as to become really wise.
You must not let anyone deceive you at all. For that is not until the rebellion takes place and the embodiment of disobedience makes his appearance??e who is doomed to destruction, the adversary of every being that is called a god or an object of worship, and so overbearing toward them as to enter God's sanctuary and take his seat there, proclaiming himself to be God??5 do you not remember that when I was with you, I used to tell you this?
So when you are going to give to charity, do not blow a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and the streets, to make people praise them. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get!
They do everything they do to have men see it. They wear wide Scripture texts as charms, and they wear large tassels,
The Pharisees, who were avaricious, heard all this, and they ridiculed him. And he said to them, "You are the men who parade your uprightness before people, but God knows your hearts. For what men consider great is detestable in the sight of God.
To some who were confident of their own uprightness, and thought nothing of others, he used this illustration:
Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?" Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would be guilty of no sin, but as it is, you say 'We can see'; so your sin continues.
They answered, "We are descended from Abraham, and have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"
They answered, "You were born in utter sin, and are you trying to teach us?" So they excluded him from the synagogue.
Suppose you call yourself a Jew, and rely on law, and boast about God, and can understand his will, and from hearing the Law read can tell what is right, and you are sure that you can guide the blind, enlighten people who are in the dark,read more.
train the foolish, teach the young, since you have knowledge and truth formulated in the Law??21 why, then, will you teach others and refuse to teach yourself? Will you preach against stealing, and yet steal yourself?
For who sees anything special in you? And what have you got that you have not been given? But if it has been given you, why do you boast as though it had not been?
Because you say, "I am rich, I have become wealthy, I need nothing," and you do not know that it is you that are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked,
