Pride exaggerates self-importance and becomes resistant to truth, dependence, and accountability.
Pride exaggerates self-importance and becomes resistant to truth, dependence, and accountability. Scripture presents this as a matter of both inward character and outward choices, to be understood within the setting of each cited passage.
Name one success without self-exaltation and one limitation without defensiveness.
Pause over the cited passage and notice what it commends, corrects, or warns against. Then consider where resisting pride is already visible in your habits and where growth is still needed.
Where does my need to appear superior keep me from learning?
Connected passages
References are grouped under one lesson to avoid presenting the same teaching as a new moral each time it appears. Read the linked chapter for its full literary and historical setting.
Moral explanations and applications are educational commentary, not scripture text. The quoted English text is from the public-domain World English Bible and remains visually identified as WEB.
