INTRODUCTION:

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

All of the studies found here, whether book studies or topical studies, are done with research with mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history, archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, nor lexicons, nor concordances, nor commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief, apostasy, and a falling away from God Himself. We do not need them. That Word of God written and preserved for us in our own language is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and as the New Testament was for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc.

There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:

(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!

Start of study

PRIDE: IT KILLS

(Proverbs 16:18 [AKJV/PCE])
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

(Proverbs 6:16-19 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Listed in order of importance? Listed in order of factors that lead to the next thing God hates? HMMMMM

  1. Pride (proud look)
  2. A lying tongue (liars)
  3. Hands that shed innocent blood (murderers, even in their heart, open hatred, hate mongerers)
  4. An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations (thinking about doing evil, preparing to do evil in one's mind)
  5. Feet that be swift in running to mischief (cannot wait to do it!)
  6. A false witness that speaketh lies (false testimony against anyone who is innocent, for manifold, a myriad of reasons)
  7. He that soweth discord among brethren (causing division among members, through any and all of the above methods)
One of the biggest problems with any person, congregation, city, nation, tribe, group, club, gang, clique, cabal, is pride, the very first sin ever done, as recorded in the two sets of prophetic verses below. This pride in Lucifer was due to his own heart, being lifted up from his own original beauty and power. Some things never change. As it is with the devil(s), so it is with mankind, from Adam and Eve until today, at all levels, all areas. In the list of six things God hates, a proud look (pride) ranks first, even before lying, murder, hatred, division. Think about that.

(Isaiah 14:12-14 [AKJV/PCE])
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

The word "pride" appears forty six times in Scripture, and God truly hates it. There are many types of pride in our world today, some of which are:
Pride was the first sin, before the fall in the garden, by the highest angel, Lucifer (Isaiah 14:12 and on, Ezekiel 28:1). Pride makes people do evil things that they cannot control, against the innocent, the poor, the defenseless. In not a single instance is the pride of man ever spoken of by as bneing a good thing, or even just OK to be. It is always evil, naughty, wicked, bad. Every last one, for any reason a person would be proud.

(James 2:1-4 [AKJV/PCE])
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

This is a massive evil done in America in churches, often more so in the south, but not exclusively. Outsiders are treated worse than members, because they "are not from here". Not only do they do this with the way a person is dressed, but also upon hearing them talk with a different American accent. As this study will plainly show, the Word of God teaches no such thing should ever, ever happen to people who walk through the doors, not dressed like one wants them to dress, not from where they want them to be from (right there, locally), because God says He loved the World, not parts of it. God said He loved the world, not just Jews, not just Gentiles. He did things in His time, and we are not to question that, but we are in the New Testament now, not the Old, but we need to learn from that part of God's Word and apply the principles God gave Israel that are not part of their law exclusively. As in? How to treat strangers entering the camp.

(1 John 2:15-16 [AKJV/PCE])
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

One thing in this world is that it is loaded with cultures and traditions, worldwide. If any part of any culture or any tradition goes against Scripture, it is automatically wrong. God does not care one whit if that is how you were raised; you are to die to self (Galatians 2:20) and become a new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17) in Christ. (Leviticus 19:18 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

(Matthew 5:43 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

(Matthew 19:19 [AKJV/PCE])
Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

(Matthew 22:39 [AKJV/PCE])
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

(Mark 12:31 [AKJV/PCE])
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

(Romans 13:9 [AKJV/PCE])
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

(Galatians 5:14 [AKJV/PCE])
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

(James 2:8 [AKJV/PCE])
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

(James 4:6 [AKJV/PCE])
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

(1 Peter 3:15 [AKJV/PCE])
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

(1 Peter 2:11 [AKJV/PCE])
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

(1 Peter 5:5-6 [AKJV/PCE])
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

(Philippians 2:3 [AKJV/PCE])
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

God hates pride, and resists it. He does not give it grace, or mercy. It is part of the six things He hates, listed first, as it was the first sin, even before the Garden of Eden was ever created, along with Adam and Eve.

THE ORIGIN OF PRIDE

(Isaiah 14:12-14 [AKJV/PCE])
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

(Ezekiel 28:12 [AKJV/PCE])
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

The origin of pride is clearly spelled out in Scripture, with Lucifer looking at himself in the mirror, probably two hours after he was created, thinking he can take over heaven above God and dethrone Him. This was (above, in Ezekiel 28:17) because of his created beauty, all it was. With handsome actors, pretty actresses and models today, we can see and say that some things never change. They are full of themselves. But we have the mind of Christ, and need to fill ourselves with Him, not ourselves. Another part of having that pride is often that the person wants to hide the fact that they know inside that they are not better, smarter, wealthier, etc. than others, and this would be a good way t hide it, by boasting about, lifting up themselves and abasing others

(1 John 2:16 [AKJV/PCE])
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

(Genesis 3:6 [AKJV/PCE])
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

This original sin was lusting, disobeying the only commandment God ever gave them, but also must be coupled with an "I want it, so I will do what I want to do and forget God!" attitude. And so it was, and so here we are, with all of the consequences. 1 John 2:15-16 tells us that this is the pride of life.

Thus, in God's Word, it is established firmly that the origin is the serpent, having pride in himself, and inflicting that into the minds of the first couple, who then passed it down to us, as an evil, wicked, Satanic, serpentine sin

THE LOCATION OF PRIDE

Throughout Scripture, it is clear that pride resides in the hearts and minds of mankind, internally

(Exodus 9:14 [AKJV/PCE])
For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.

God told Pharaoh that these plagues would be on his heart, the center of his intense pride of power, even though they were plagues upon the land, the water, the livestock on their skin.Ultimately, it was his heart that was the problem.

(Deuteronomy 8:14 [AKJV/PCE])
Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

(Deuteronomy 8:17 [AKJV/PCE])
And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

Israel was warned that, after God blessing them in every way, their pride would arise in them, thinking that they did this and not God, that they were so very important and better than others and that is why God blesses them, and not because He loves them

(Deuteronomy 9:4 [AKJV/PCE])
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

This is the same attitude, applied to when God thrust their enemies out from the land He gave them to inherit from Him.

(Deuteronomy 15:7 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

Pride causes one to ignore the needy, because they think in themselves that they are better than the downtrodden, and this is universal to mankind.

THE MANIFESTATION OF PRIDE

(Romans 1:32 [AKJV/PCE])
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

(Psalms 119:51 [AKJV/PCE])
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF PRIDE

(Proverbs 16:18 [AKJV/PCE])
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

(Proverbs 11:2 [AKJV/PCE])
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

(Proverbs 18:12 [AKJV/PCE])
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

(Proverbs 21:24 [AKJV/PCE])
Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

(2 Samuel 22:28 [AKJV/PCE])
And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

THE PRIDE IN THE CHURCH BODY

HOW TO DEFEAT PRIDE

(Proverbs 8:13 [AKJV/PCE])
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

PRIDE: PUNISHED

(Leviticus 26:19 [AKJV/PCE])
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

(1 Samuel 2:4 [AKJV/PCE])
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

Hannah prayed this about Peninnah Elkanah's other wife after the LORD opened her womb, and Samuel was born to her and Elkanah.

THE WORD PROUD IN SCRIPTURE

(Exodus 18:11 [AKJV/PCE])
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.

Egypt under Pharaoh was proud; look what happened to their empire

(1 Samuel 2:3 [AKJV/PCE])
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

(Nehemiah 9:10 [AKJV/PCE])
And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.

(Nehemiah 9:16 [AKJV/PCE])
But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

(Nehemiah 9:29 [AKJV/PCE])
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

(Job 9:13 [AKJV/PCE])
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

(Job 26:12 [AKJV/PCE])
He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

(Job 38:11 [AKJV/PCE])
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

(Job 40:11 [AKJV/PCE])
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

(Job 40:12 [AKJV/PCE])
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

(Psalms 12:3 [AKJV/PCE])
The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

(Psalms 17:10 [AKJV/PCE])
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

(Psalms 31:18 [AKJV/PCE])
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

(Psalms 31:23 [AKJV/PCE])
O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

(Psalms 40:4 [AKJV/PCE])
Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

(Psalms 73:3-6 [AKJV/PCE])
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

THE PSALMIST CONTINUES...

(Psalms 73:8-11 [AKJV/PCE])
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

(Psalms 86:14 [AKJV/PCE])
O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

(Psalms 94:2 [AKJV/PCE])
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

(Psalms 101:5 [AKJV/PCE])
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

(Psalms 119:21 [AKJV/PCE])
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

(Psalms 119:51 [AKJV/PCE])
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

(Psalms 119:69 [AKJV/PCE])
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

(Psalms 119:78 [AKJV/PCE])
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

(Psalms 119:85 [AKJV/PCE])
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

(Psalms 119:122 [AKJV/PCE])
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

(Psalms 123:4 [AKJV/PCE])
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

(Psalms 124:5 [AKJV/PCE])
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

(Psalms 138:6 [AKJV/PCE])
Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

(Psalms 140:5 [AKJV/PCE])
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

(Proverbs 6:17 [AKJV/PCE])
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

(Proverbs 15:25 [AKJV/PCE])
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

(Proverbs 16:5 [AKJV/PCE])
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

(Proverbs 16:19 [AKJV/PCE])
Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

(Proverbs 21:4 [AKJV/PCE])
An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

(Proverbs 21:24 [AKJV/PCE])
Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

(Proverbs 28:25 [AKJV/PCE])
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

(Ecclesiastes 7:8 [AKJV/PCE])
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

(Isaiah 2:12 [AKJV/PCE])
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

(Isaiah 3:5 [AKJV/PCE])
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

(Isaiah 13:11 [AKJV/PCE])
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

(Isaiah 16:6 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

(Jeremiah 13:15 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.

(Jeremiah 43:2 [AKJV/PCE])
Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:

(Jeremiah 48:29 [AKJV/PCE])
We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

(Jeremiah 50:29 [AKJV/PCE])
Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

(Jeremiah 50:31 [AKJV/PCE])
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

(Jeremiah 50:32 [AKJV/PCE])
And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

(Obadiah 1:12 [AKJV/PCE])
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

(Habakkuk 2:5 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

(Malachi 3:15 [AKJV/PCE])
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

(Malachi 4:1 [AKJV/PCE])
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

(Luke 1:51 [AKJV/PCE])
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

(Romans 1:30 [AKJV/PCE])
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

(1 Timothy 6:4 [AKJV/PCE])
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

(2 Timothy 3:2 [AKJV/PCE])
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

(James 4:6 [AKJV/PCE])
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

(1 Peter 5:5 [AKJV/PCE])
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

ARROGANCY IN SCRIPTURE

(1 Samuel 2:3 [AKJV/PCE])
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Eli's other wife, Penninah, mocked Hannah for not being able to have a child, so God gave her Samuel. Once Hannah had Samuel, Peninnah was never heard from again in Scripture. That was her legacy.

HOPHNI AND PHINEHAS

(1 Samuel 2:13-17 [AKJV/PCE])
And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither. Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw. And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force. Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.

(1 Samuel 2:34 [AKJV/PCE])
And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.

(1 Samuel 4:11 [AKJV/PCE])
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

Because of their pride and arrogance, they disobeyed God, took of the offering that was forbidden and died as a result

(Proverbs 8:13 [AKJV/PCE])
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Conversely, no fear of the LORD will have one love pride, arrogancy and evil, and the boastful, cursing mouth

(Isaiah 13:11 [AKJV/PCE])
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.


God will one day utterly destroy this wicked sin, the first one that was done against Him

(Jeremiah 48:29 [AKJV/PCE])
We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Moab was destroyed in the past, never quite fully and is now today Jordan, but one day...Jeremiah 48:1-47 says they will be destroyed once and for all because of this pride and arrogancy

THE OPPOSITE OF PRIDE: HUMILITY, HOSPITALITY

(1 Peter 4:9 [AKJV/PCE])
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

HOW TO TREAT STRANGERS

(Genesis 37:1)
And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

Strangers and pilgrims we are on this earth and, from cover to cover, God expected Israel and expects us now to treat visitors, innocent foreigners and stangers who enter our sanctuaries, congregations, to be treated the same as members-THE EXACT SAME IN EVERY WAY

(Deuteronomy 10:19 [AKJV/PCE])
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

(Deuteronomy 7:6-11 [AKJV/PCE])
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

(Genesis 17:27 [AKJV/PCE])
And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

(Exodus 12:48-49 [AKJV/PCE])
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

(Exodus 23:12 [AKJV/PCE])
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

(Leviticus 17:8 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,

(Leviticus 17:10 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. (Leviticus 17:13 [AKJV/PCE])
And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

(Leviticus 19:34 [AKJV/PCE])
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 22:18 [AKJV/PCE])
Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;

(Leviticus 20:2 [AKJV/PCE])
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

(Leviticus 23:22 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

(Leviticus 24:16 [AKJV/PCE])
And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.

(Leviticus 24:22 [AKJV/PCE])
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.

(Leviticus 25:45 [AKJV/PCE])
Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

(Leviticus 25:47 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

(Numbers 1:51 [AKJV/PCE])
And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

(Numbers 3:10 [AKJV/PCE])
And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

(Numbers 9:14 [AKJV/PCE])
And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

(Numbers 3:38 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

(Numbers 15:15-16 [AKJV/PCE])
One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

(Numbers 15:26 [AKJV/PCE])
And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.

(Numbers 15:29 [AKJV/PCE])
Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

(Numbers 18:7 [AKJV/PCE])
Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

(Numbers 19:10 [AKJV/PCE])
And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

(Numbers 35:15 [AKJV/PCE])
These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.

(Deuteronomy 1:16 [AKJV/PCE])
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

(Deuteronomy 10:18 [AKJV/PCE])
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

(Deuteronomy 10:19 [AKJV/PCE])
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

(Deuteronomy 14:21 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

(Deuteronomy 14:29 [AKJV/PCE])
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

(Deuteronomy 16:11 [AKJV/PCE])
And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.

(Deuteronomy 16:14 [AKJV/PCE])
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

(Deuteronomy 24:17 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

(Deuteronomy 24:19 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

(Deuteronomy 24:20 [AKJV/PCE])
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

(Deuteronomy 24:21 [AKJV/PCE])
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

(Deuteronomy 26:11 [AKJV/PCE])
And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

(Deuteronomy 26:12 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

(Deuteronomy 26:13 [AKJV/PCE])
Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

(Deuteronomy 27:19 [AKJV/PCE])
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

(Deuteronomy 28:43 [AKJV/PCE])
The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

(Deuteronomy 29:22 [AKJV/PCE])
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;

(Deuteronomy 31:16 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

(Joshua 8:33 [AKJV/PCE])
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

(Joshua 8:35 [AKJV/PCE])
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

(Joshua 20:9 [AKJV/PCE])
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

(1 Kings 8:43 [AKJV/PCE])
Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.

(1 Chronicles 22:2 [AKJV/PCE])
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

(2 Chronicles 2:17 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

(2 Chronicles 6:32 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

(2 Chronicles 6:33 [AKJV/PCE])
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

(2 Chronicles 15:9 [AKJV/PCE])
And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

(2 Chronicles 30:25 [AKJV/PCE])
And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

(Job 31:32 [AKJV/PCE])
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

(Psalms 18:44 [AKJV/PCE])
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

(Psalms 18:45 [AKJV/PCE])
The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

(Psalms 94:6 [AKJV/PCE])
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

(Psalms 109:11 [AKJV/PCE])
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

(Psalms 146:9 [AKJV/PCE])
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

(Proverbs 2:16 [AKJV/PCE])
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

(Proverbs 7:5 [AKJV/PCE])
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

(Isaiah 14:1 [AKJV/PCE])
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

(Isaiah 56:3 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

(Isaiah 56:6 [AKJV/PCE])
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

(Isaiah 62:8 [AKJV/PCE])
The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:

(Jeremiah 3:13 [AKJV/PCE])
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

(Jeremiah 7:6 [AKJV/PCE])
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

(Jeremiah 22:3 [AKJV/PCE])
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

(Ezekiel 7:21 [AKJV/PCE])
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

(Ezekiel 14:7 [AKJV/PCE])
For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:

(Ezekiel 22:7 [AKJV/PCE])
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

(Ezekiel 22:29 [AKJV/PCE])
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

(Ezekiel 47:22 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

(Ezekiel 47:23 [AKJV/PCE])
And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.

(Hosea 8:7 [AKJV/PCE])
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

(Obadiah 1:11 [AKJV/PCE])
In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

(Zechariah 7:10 [AKJV/PCE])
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

(Malachi 3:5 [AKJV/PCE])
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

(1 Peter 1:1 [AKJV/PCE])
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

HOW TO TREAT STRANGERS

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