8804 pride, examples of

Scripture illustrates the many different ways in which pride manifests itself.

Pride in status

Ex 5:2 Pharaoh; 2Ki 5:11 Naaman Hezekiah: 2Ki 20:13; 2Ch 32:25
Est 5:11-12 Haman Moab: Isa 16:6; Jer 48:29
Isa 47:8 Babylon; Eze 16:49-50 Sodom; Eze 28:2 the king of Tyre Assyria: Eze 31:3,10
Da 5:23 Belshazzar; Ob 3 Edom; Zep 2:15 Nineveh Teachers of the law and Pharisees: Mt 23:6-7 pp Mk 12:38-39 pp Lk 20:46; Lk 11:43
Ac 8:9 Simon the sorcerer; Rev 18:7 Babylon the Great

Pride in strength

1Sa 17:42 Goliath; 2Ki 14:9-10 Amaziah, king of Judah; 2Ki 18:33-35 the Assyrian commander Israel: Isa 9:9-10; Hos 10:13
Isa 10:13 the king of Assyria Nebuchadnezzar: Da 3:15; Da 4:30 Peter: Mt 26:33-35 pp Mk 14:29-31 pp Lk 22:33; Jn 13:37

Pride in wisdom

Isa 10:13 the king of Assyria; Ac 17:21; Ro 1:22; 1Co 1:20; 1Co 3:18

Proud ambition

Isa 14:13-14 the king of Babylon; 2Th 2:3-4 the antichrist

Spiritual pride

2Ki 10:16; Job 32:1; Job 33:9; Isa 65:5; Mt 6:2,3,16 Teachers of the law and Pharisees: Mt 23:5,30; Mk 12:40 pp Lk 20:47; Lk 16:14-15; Lk 18:9,11-12; Jn 9:40-41
Lk 10:29 an expert in the law Some Jews: Jn 8:33; Jn 9:34; Ro 2:17-20
1Co 4:7,18; Rev 3:17 the church in Laodicea

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