• 1 John 2:15-17
  Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves 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. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
   
• Luke 14:26-27
  "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
   
• Ephesians 2:1-3
  And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
   
• Proverbs 16:18
  Pride goes before destruction,
  And a haughty spirit before a fall.
  
   
• Revelation 3:14-18
  "And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, "These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, "I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing"—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
   
• Psalm 73:6-9
  Therefore pride serves as their necklace;
  Violence covers them like a garment.
  Their eyes bulge with abundance;
  They have more than heart could wish.
  They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;
  They speak loftily.
  They set their mouth against the heavens,
  And their tongue walks through the earth.
   
• Luke 21:34
  "But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.
   
• 1 Corinthians 4:7
  For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
   
• Galatians 5:17
  For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
   
• Deuteronomy 8:10-14
  When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you. “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
   
• Deuteronomy 32:15
  "But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;
  You grew fat, you grew thick,
  You are obese!
  Then he forsook God who made him,
  And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
   
• Proverbs 14:3
  In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride,
  But the lips of the wise will preserve them.
  
   
• Proverbs 18:11-12
  The rich man's wealth is his strong city,
  And like a high wall in his own esteem.
  Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty,
  And before honor is humility.
  
   
• Ezekiel 16:49
  Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
   
• Habakkuk 2:4-5
  "Behold the proud,
  His soul is not upright in him;
  But the just shall live by his faith. "Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,
  He is a proud man,
  And he does not stay at home.
  Because he enlarges his desire as hell,
  And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied,
  He gathers to himself all nations
  And heaps up for himself all peoples.
  
   

Related Scriptures

• James 4:4
  Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
   
• Jeremiah 17:9
  " The heart is deceitful above all things,
  And desperately wicked;
  Who can know it?
  
   
• Matthew 18:4
  Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
   
• Romans 7:22-23
  For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
   
• Romans 12:1-2
  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
   
• Deuteronomy 8:3
  So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.
   
• Psalm 39:5
  Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
  And my age is as nothing before You;
  Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah