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A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
What does pride mean in the Bible?
Pride is God's cloak: greatness belongs to Him alone
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Where pride appears in the Bible
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
2 Chronicles 32:26
Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
Amos 6:8
“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 29:23
Christian Psychology
Pride is the ego's boast that it stands alone and needs no one, and that very claim casts the mind down, for what pretends to be separate has cut itself off from its source of strength. The inflated self is weighed down by its grandeur, forever defending a fortress that was never real.
The thought that has laid down its defenses, no longer needing to be more than it is, finds itself quietly upheld. True worth is not seized but received by the mind that stops grasping. What is willing to be small in the ego's eyes is held up by a love that asks nothing.
- A man's pride: the ego's boast of standing alone, the inflated self that its own defense brings down
- The humble in spirit: the thought that has laid down its defenses and is upheld by love it need not earn
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Sufism · Isaiah 28:5
Sufism
Pride is My cloak: greatness is God's to wear A saying of the Prophet has God call greatness His own garment. Anyone who props up their standing with status, money, or a good name is wearing something borrowed, and borrowed things get taken back. When that happens, the fall feels like ruin, though all that ended was a loan.
Faqr: Neediness before God Faqr names owning nothing that was not handed to you first. People usually meet it after a loss, when the supports they counted on are gone and how little was theirs becomes obvious. From there, whatever comes next arrives plainly as a gift instead of a wage.
All things perish except His face: only God does not fade Al-Ghazali built the Niche of Lights around this line from the Quran. Every source of pride has a shelf life, and the ones that look most solid, a reputation, a crowd's approval, a long good run, wear out on schedule. The one thing that stays is God Himself, and He was holding the person up the whole time.
ʿIzza: Honor that belongs to God The Quran teaches that all honor is God's, so anyone who wants some goes to Him for it. Someone small or overlooked tends to hunt for honor in other people's eyes, where it rises and falls with the mood of the room. Honor from God does not move like that, and being unnoticed stops settling the question of a person's worth.
God is beautiful and loves beauty: beauty starts in Him A saying of the Prophet places beauty in God before it appears anywhere else. A person stripped of everything impressive has nothing lovely left to point at, and usually assumes that closes the case on them. Beauty that comes from nearness to God rests on them from outside, the way a plain room changes under good light.
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