¹² Haughtiness comes before disaster, but humility before honor.

³³ The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord brings instruction in Wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

⁴ The reward of humility and the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.

⁶ But He gives us more and more grace (^[a]power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others fully). That is why He says, God sets Himself against the proud and haughty, but gives grace [continually] to the lowly (those who are humble enough to receive it).^(A)