What is pride? Biblical questions

 

485. What is pride? 

Pride is that feeling within the heart that shrinks from humiliation, and seeks the exaltation of self. 

486. What is the divine command? 

“Be not proud” (Jeremiah 13:15). 

487. Why? 

“An high look, and a proud heart, . . . is sin” (Proverbs 21:4). 

488. What does God think of a proud look? 

The Lord hates a proud look (Proverbs 6:17). 

489. What are some of the evidences of pride? Looks (Proverbs 6:17); vain display (Isaiah 3:16-24); love of 

applause (Acts 12:21, 22); scorning (Proverbs 21:24); overbearing disposition (Isaiah 3:11) boastful speech 

(Psalm 12:3; Romans 1:30); strife (Proverbs 13:10; Isaiah 16:6), etc. 

490. What are some of the fruits of pride? Contention (Proverbs 13:10); vain display (Isaiah 3: l6-24); 

drunkenness (Isaiah 28:1); destruction (Proverbs 16:18;29:23). 

491. Does the Bible approve of any form of pride? 

It does not. 

492. Does it not require a certain amount of pride to keep cleanly? It does not. Decency and pride have noth-

ing in common. 

493. What evidence have we that God hates all forms of pride? 

God’s Word makes no reservations when pride is denounced (Proverbs 16:5), and is completely silent on 

any kind of justifiable pride. 

494. What of people who say they are proud of their children or their possessions, etc.? 

They either do not mean what they say, or should repent of that feeling. 

495. How then shall we look upon pride? 

“Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord” (Proverbs 16:5). “God resisteth the proud” 

(James 4:6). 

496. What scriptures give us good advice on this subject? 

Jeremiah 13:18; Matthew 11:28-30; Philippians 2:5-8.