• Isaiah 14:12-15
    "How you are fallen from heaven,
    O Lucifer, son of the morning!
    How you are cut down to the ground,
    You who weakened the nations!
    For you have said in your heart:
    'I will ascend into heaven,
    I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
    I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
    On the farthest sides of the north;
    I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
    I will be like the Most High.'
    Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
    To the lowest depths of the Pit.

     
  • Ezekiel 28:17
    "Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
    You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor;
    I cast you to the ground,
    I laid you before kings,
    That they might gaze at you.

     
  • Job 41:34
    He beholds every high thing;
    He is king over all the children of pride.'
     
  • Ezekiel 28:14-15
    "You were the anointed cherub who covers;
    I established you;
    You were on the holy mountain of God;
    You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
    You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,
    Till iniquity was found in you.

     
  • Proverbs 16:18
    Pride goes before destruction,
    And a haughty spirit before a fall.

     
  • Proverbs 21:4
    A haughty look, a proud heart,
    And the plowing of the wicked are sin.

     
  • Psalm 10:2
    The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor;
    Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
     
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Resources

The Case Against Pride

Sermonette by

Three symptoms of pride include (1) lying to protect our self-image; (2) competitiveness; (3) believing our personal ideas are more valuable than God's Truth.


Pride, Humility, and Fasting

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

Pride stands as the root of separation from God, acting as the father of all sin. It is the initial force that lifted the heart of satan, leading him to rebel against the Almighty, as seen in Ezekiel 28:17. Described symbolically as Leviathan in Job 41:34, satan is the king of pride, generating this destructive attitude in human …


Pride of Life

Sermonette by Clyde Finklea

We are admonished to put out the leavening of pride and arrogance. Pride is something we loathe in someone else, but tolerate in ourselves.


From Pride to Humility

Sermon by John O. Reid

Pride is considered by some to be the very root and essence of sin and by others to be sin in its final form. Satan is the father of pride. He is king over all the children of pride because he did not intend to acknowledge any to be superior to him in all of heaven and earth. He regarded himself alone as supreme and was filled …


Pride, Contention, and Unity

'Personal' from John W. Ritenbaugh

Pride is the father of all other sins. The first recorded sin in all of God's creation involved pride. Ezekiel 28:17 states that Lucifer's heart was lifted up because of his beauty, and this corrupted his wisdom for the sake of his splendor. Pride blinded him to its own existence and to the impossibility of what he was trying to …


Living By Faith and Human Pride

'Personal' from John W. Ritenbaugh

God wants us to walk—live our lives—by faith, but our pride and vanity frequently get in the way. Critically, pride causes us to reject God and His Word.


Living by Faith: Human Pride

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

Our human nature is pure vanity with a heart that is desperately deceitful and wicked, motivated by self-centeredness, a deadly combination for producing sin.


Pride, Humility, and the Day of Atonement

'Personal' from John W. Ritenbaugh

Pride is the attitude that has produced all division and fighting on earth, and God devotes the most solemn day of the year to commanding self-affliction designed to promote humility because unity and an end to fighting will never occur until pride is removed. This pride originated with Satan, whose heart was lifted up because …



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