– Hateful addiction:
Deut 8:14 : Let your heart be lifted up, and forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Rom 11:18 : Do not be puffed up or look down on the branches. For if you boast, know that it is not you.
Rom 12:16 : Live in good harmony with one another. Do not let yourself be carried away by the taste for grandeur.
1Cor 4,7 : What is superior in you? What do you have that you have not received? And if you received it, why do you boast?
Jas 4:16 : But now you boast in your presumptions.
– False concept that man has of himself and his own condition:
Gen 2:7 : The Lord God formed man […] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a being.
Eclo 10,9 : Nothing is more criminal than avarice; What is earth and gray proud of?
Eclo 17,27 : Glorify God while you live; glorify him while you have life and health.
– Is censored in men and women:
Deut 8,17-18 : Do not say in your heart: “My strength and the strength of my arm have bought me all these goods”.
Is 3,16-22 : Since the daughters of Zion are pretentious, and walk with their necks stuck up, making signs with their eyes.
Is 32,9-10 : Careless women, listen to my voice. Overconfident young people, I heard my words.
Is 10,8-14 : Because he said: “Are not all my leaders kings?”.
Dan 4,27-28 : Great Babylon, which I built to make her a royal mansion by my sovereign power.
Mt 23,5 : They do all their actions to be seen by men.
Lc 11,43 : Woe to you, Pharisees, who love the front seats in synagogues and greetings in public squares!
Lk 14,7-11 : When you are invited to the wedding, do not take the first place.
– It constitutes a true source of sin:
Tob 4,14 : Never allow pride to dominate your spirit or your words, because it is the origin of all evil.
Pr 11 :2 : When pride comes, shame also comes, but wisdom dwells with the humble.
Pr 16,18 : Pride goes before ruin; and pride to fall.
Pr 29:23 : A man’s pride brings him to humiliation, but the humble in spirit obtains glory.
Eclo 10,7.14s : Pride is abominable to God and men; and all the iniquity of the nations terrifies.
– It is diabolical when it rises up against God:
Gen 3,5-6 : But God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like gods.
Gen 11:4-5 : Come on, let’s make ourselves a city and a tower whose top reaches the heavens.
Ex 5:2 : Who is this Lord, that I should obey him in letting Israel go?
Deut 8:14 : Let your heart be lifted up, and forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Eclo 10,12 : The doctor cuts short a brief malaise; so one who is king today will die tomorrow.
Is 14,13-14 : I will ascend above the highest clouds and become equal to the Most High.
Is 36,18-19 : Let Hezekiah not abuse you by saying that the Lord will deliver you!
Is 37,23-24 : Whom have you insulted and outraged? Against whom did you raise your voice and look over your shoulder?
Ez 28,2 : When you are nothing more than a man and you are not a god, you judge yourself equal to God in your heart.
Dan 5,22-23 : You, Balthazar, his son, also knew all this and did not humble your heart.
Acts 12:21-22 : The people applauded: “It is the voice of a god, not a man!”.
– And is severely punished:
Gn 3,16-17 : I will multiply the sufferings of your childbirth; you will give birth in pain.
Gn 11,7-9 : Let’s go: let’s go down to confuse their language, so that they no longer understand each other.
Eclo 10,13-14 : When a man is dead, he inherits serpents, animals and worms.
Is 14,15-16 : And yet, behold, you were cast down to the abode of the dead, to the deepest abyss.
Is 37,36-37 : The next day, in the morning, when I woke up, there were only corpses there.
Ez 28,7-8 : I will bring foreigners, the most brutal of all peoples, against you.
Dan 5,24-25.30 : But that same night, Baltazar, king of the Chaldeans, was killed.
Mt 23:12 : He who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
Luke 10:15 : And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be thrown down to hell.
Luke 18:14 : For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Acts 12:23 : The angel of the Lord smote him because he had not given honor to God. And, gnawed with worms, he expired.
– Frequent are the exhortations to humility:
Jt 16:17 : Woe to the nations that rise up against my people! On the day of judgment the Lord Almighty will punish them.
Eclo 7,17 : Do not place yourself among the corrupted people.
Is 66,2 : It was I who made the universe, and everything belongs to me, declares the Lord.
Mt 11:29 : Take my yoke upon you and receive my doctrine, for I am meek and lowly in heart.
Mt 18,1-5 : Whoever becomes humble like this child will be greater in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Mk 9,33-37 : If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.
Lc 17,10 : We are servants like any other; we did what we were supposed to do.
Lk 22,24-27 : But he who is greatest among you, let him become like the last; and let him who rules be like a servant.
Rom 12 :3 : Do not make of yourselves an opinion greater than is convenient, but a reasonably modest concept.
Phil 2,3-4 : Do nothing out of party spirit or vainglory, but let humility teach you to consider others.
1Pt 2:16 : Behave like free men, not like those who take liberty.
1Pet 5 :6 : Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
– Punishment of pride:
Ps 17:28 : The humble you save, the proud countenance humiliate.
Eclo 10,16-22 : God overthrew the thrones of proud chiefs and made peaceable men sit in their place.
Is 14,12-15 : So! You fell from the heavens, bright star, son of the dawn!
Is 42,8 : I am the Lord, that is my name, I will give my glory to no one, nor my honor to idols.
Lk 1,51s : He has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted the lowly.
Luke 14:11 : For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.
Luke 18:14 : For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Acts 12:23 : Immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he had not given honor to God.
