https://en.orthodoxwiki.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Vladimir-Adrian&feedformat=atomOrthodoxWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T01:15:45ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=New_Testament_Canon&diff=115666New Testament Canon2013-04-25T10:35:55Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: /* History */</p>
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<div>The '''New Testament Canon''' is the collection of books that make up the [[New Testament]], which has been accepted and formally approved by the Church.<br />
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==History==<br />
By the end of the 1st century, some letters of Paul were collected and circulated. We know this through references by [[Clement of Rome]] (c. 95), [[Ignatius of Antioch]] (died 117), and [[Polycarp of Smyrna]] (c. 115). However, these texts weren't usually called [[Holy Scripture|Scripture]] as the [[Septuagint]] was, and they weren't without critics. Certain [[heretic]]s tried to deny the validity of many parts of the [[Canon]], particularly the Pauline epistles. In the late 4th century Epiphanius of Salamis (died 402) Panarion 29 says the Nazarenes had rejected the Pauline epistles; Irenaeus' ''Against Heresies'' 26.2 says the Ebionites rejected him (Paul or Irenaeus?) . Acts 21:21 records a rumor that Paul aimed to subvert the [[Old Testament]] (see Romans 3:8, 31). 2 Peter 3:16 says his letters have been abused by heretics who twist them around "as they do with the other scriptures." In the 2nd and 3rd centuries [[Eusebius of Caesarea|Eusebius]]' ''Ecclesiastical History'' 6.38 stated the Elchasai "made use of texts from every part of the Old Testament and the Gospels; it rejects the Apostle (Paul) entirely"; 4.29.5 says Tatian the Assyrian rejected Paul's Letters and Acts of the Apostles; 6.25 says [[Origen]] accepted 22 canonical books of the Hebrews plus Maccabees plus the four [[Gospel]]s but Paul "did not so much as write to all the churches that he taught; and even to those to which he wrote he sent but a few lines."<br />
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The Roman Emperor [[Constantine the Great]] (272-337) had a great effect on Orthodox Christianity. With his [[Edict of Milan]] in 313, Christians had more freedom and Church leadership took aggressive public stances. As a result, Church controversies now flared into public [[schism]]s, sometimes with violence. Constantine saw the quelling of religious disorder as the divinely-appointed emperor's duty and called the 314 [[Council of Arles of 314|Council of Arles]] against the [[Donatism|Donatists]] and the [[First Ecumenical Council]] to settle some of the doctrinal problems seen as plaguing early Christianity. A number of early Christian writings were lost or destroyed during this time. <br />
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=== Books of the [[New Testament]] Canon ===<br />
{{New Testament Canon}}<br />
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{| width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="2" border="0"<br />
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*[[Gospel of Matthew]]<br />
*[[Gospel of Mark]]<br />
*[[Gospel of Luke]]<br />
*[[Gospel of John]]<br />
*[[Acts of the Apostles]]<br />
*[[Romans]]<br />
*[[I Corinthians]]<br />
*[[II Corinthians]]<br />
*[[Galatians]]<br />
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| width="33%" align="left" valign="top"|<br />
*[[Ephesians]]<br />
*[[Philippians]]<br />
*[[Colossians]]<br />
*[[I Thessalonians]]<br />
*[[II Thessalonians]]<br />
*[[I Timothy]]<br />
*[[II Timothy]]<br />
*[[Book of Titus|Titus]]<br />
*[[Book of Philemon|Philemon]]<br />
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| width="33%" align="left" valign="top"|<br />
*[[Book of Hebrews|Hebrews]]<br />
*[[Book of James|James]]<br />
*[[I Peter]]<br />
*[[II Peter]]<br />
*[[I John]]<br />
*[[II John]]<br />
*[[III John]]<br />
*[[Book of Jude|Jude]]<br />
*[[Book of Revelation|Revelation]] (Apocalypse)<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:New Testament]]<br />
[[Category:Scripture]]<br />
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[[el:Κανόνας της Καινής Διαθήκης]]</div>Vladimir-Adrianhttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=False_witness&diff=98860False witness2011-03-15T20:06:04Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: /* Cases of lying witness */</p>
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<div>'''False witness''' is a [[sin]] forbidden by the the ninth commandment of the [[Decalogue]].<br />
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==General chracteristics==<br />
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The ninth Commandment forbids bearing false witness against one’s neighbour.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus20.16,%20Deuteronomy%205.20&version=RMNN;ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> False witness (false testimony) is among the things that defile a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew15.18-20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and among the seven things God hates.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%206.16-19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Punishment==<br />
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A charge was established only on the evidence of two or three witnesses<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy19.15,%2017.6-7,%20Numbers35.30,%20Matthew%2018.15-17,%20John%208.17,%20Hebrews10.28,%201Timothy%205.19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the witness is a liar, they must do to him as he intended (meant) to do to his brother, to be an example to the others.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy19.15-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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The witness who hid what he had seen or what he knew bore his iniquity; if he realized his guilt, he had to [[confess]] his [[sin]], brought to the Lord a female lamb or goat from the flock (or two turtledoves or two pigeons, or a tenth of an ephah of fine flour) for a sin offering as his compensation for the sin he had committed. And the priest made atonement for him for his sin and he was forgiven.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus5.1-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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==The lying witness==<br />
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The lying witness is a deceitful man,<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus23.1,%20Proverbs%2012.17,14.5,%2014.25,%2024.28,%20Psalm%2027.12,%2035.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> who mocks at justice.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2019.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>He is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2025.18&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> ″A false witness will not go unpunished.″ king [[Solomon]] says.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov19.5,9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>″A false witness will perish″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov21.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>(loses [[eternal life]]) if he does not [[repent]].<br />
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==Cases of lying witness==<br />
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Saint Paul, Jason and some other Christians were accused by false witnesses for proclaiming another king, Jesus.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2017.1-9&version=ESV;RMNN;ASV</ref><br />
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Saint Paul was acused by lying witnesses but found not guilty.<ref>Acts, chapter 21-26</ref><br />
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Nabot was sentenced to death for cursing God and the king because two worthless men brought false witness against him. This was planned by Jezebel who ask the elders and the leaders of Nabot" s city in letters in Ahab’s name and sealed with his seal. In ths way king [[Ahab]] was able to obtain the Nabot" s vineyard which he had refused to sell because it was an inheritance of his fathers. <br />
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Some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia came upon Stephen and seized him and brought him before the council and set up false witnesses against him. These false witnesses said: "This man never ceases to speak words agains this holy place ([[Temple of Jerusalem]]) and the law, for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place (Stephen said that the temple of Jesus′ body had been destroyed by others but raise it up by Him in three days, according with what Jesus had said <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202.18-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>)and the customs that Moses delivered to us."(Stephen said what Jesus had said namely He had come to fulfil the Law of [[Moses]] and the Prophets<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205.17&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw Stephen′ s face was like the face of an [[angel]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts6.8-15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Many testified falsely against [[Jesus]], but their statements did not agree. At last two witnesses said they had heard Him saying He would destroy that temple and in three days built another, not made with hands, ,(He really had meant the resurrection of His body, as a temple of the Holy Spirit, destroyed by others but raise it up by Him). Yet even about this their testimony did not agree.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark14.55-65,%20Matthew26.59-66&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202.18-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Reference==<br />
<references/><br />
==Sources==<br />
#Bible, English Standard Version Revised, 1971<br />
#http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/<br />
<br />
[[Category:Spirituality]]<br />
<br />
[[ro:Mărturia mincinoasă]]</div>Vladimir-Adrianhttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=False_witness&diff=98858False witness2011-03-15T20:01:19Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: /* Cases of lying witness */</p>
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<div>'''False witness''' is a [[sin]] forbidden by the the ninth commandment of the [[Decalogue]].<br />
<br />
==General chracteristics==<br />
<br />
The ninth Commandment forbids bearing false witness against one’s neighbour.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus20.16,%20Deuteronomy%205.20&version=RMNN;ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> False witness (false testimony) is among the things that defile a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew15.18-20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and among the seven things God hates.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%206.16-19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
<br />
==Punishment==<br />
<br />
A charge was established only on the evidence of two or three witnesses<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy19.15,%2017.6-7,%20Numbers35.30,%20Matthew%2018.15-17,%20John%208.17,%20Hebrews10.28,%201Timothy%205.19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the witness is a liar, they must do to him as he intended (meant) to do to his brother, to be an example to the others.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy19.15-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
<br />
The witness who hid what he had seen or what he knew bore his iniquity; if he realized his guilt, he had to [[confess]] his [[sin]], brought to the Lord a female lamb or goat from the flock (or two turtledoves or two pigeons, or a tenth of an ephah of fine flour) for a sin offering as his compensation for the sin he had committed. And the priest made atonement for him for his sin and he was forgiven.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus5.1-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
<br />
==The lying witness==<br />
<br />
The lying witness is a deceitful man,<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus23.1,%20Proverbs%2012.17,14.5,%2014.25,%2024.28,%20Psalm%2027.12,%2035.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> who mocks at justice.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2019.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>He is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2025.18&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> ″A false witness will not go unpunished.″ king [[Solomon]] says.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov19.5,9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>″A false witness will perish″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov21.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>(loses [[eternal life]]) if he does not [[repent]].<br />
<br />
==Cases of lying witness==<br />
<br />
Saint Paul, Jason and some other christians were accused by false witnesses for proclaiming another king, Jesus.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2017.1-9&version=ESV;RMNN;ASV</ref><br />
<br />
Saint Paul was acused by lying witnesses but found not guilty.<ref>Acts, chapter 21-26</ref><br />
<br />
Nabot was sentenced to death for cursing God and the king because two worthless men brought false witness against him. This was planned by Jezebel who ask the elders and the leaders of Nabot" s city in letters in Ahab’s name and sealed with his seal. In ths way king [[Ahab]] was able to obtain the Nabot" s vineyard which he had refused to sell because it was an inheritance of his fathers. <br />
<br />
Some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia came upon Stephen and seized him and brought him before the council and set up false witnesses against him. These false witnesses said: "This man never ceases to speak words agains this holy place ([[Temple of Jerusalem]]) and the law, for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place (Stephen said that the temple of Jesus′ body had been destroyed by others but raise it up by Him in three days, according with what Jesus had said <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202.18-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>)and the customs that Moses delivered to us."(Stephen said what Jesus had said namely He had come to fulfil the Law of [[Moses]] and the Prophets<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205.17&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw Stephen′ s face was like the face of an [[angel]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts6.8-15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
<br />
Many testified falsely against [[Jesus]], but their statements did not agree. At last two witnesses said they had heard Him saying He would destroy that temple and in three days built another, not made with hands, ,(He really had meant the resurrection of His body, as a temple of the Holy Spirit, destroyed by others but raise it up by Him). Yet even about this their testimony did not agree.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark14.55-65,%20Matthew26.59-66&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202.18-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
<br />
==Reference==<br />
<references/><br />
==Sources==<br />
#Bible, English Standard Version Revised, 1971<br />
#http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/<br />
<br />
[[Category:Spirituality]]<br />
<br />
[[ro:Mărturia mincinoasă]]</div>Vladimir-Adrianhttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=False_witness&diff=98854False witness2011-03-15T19:01:36Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: /* Cases of lying witness */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''False witness''' is a [[sin]] forbidden by the the ninth commandment of the [[Decalogue]].<br />
<br />
==General chracteristics==<br />
<br />
The ninth Commandment forbids bearing false witness against one’s neighbour.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus20.16,%20Deuteronomy%205.20&version=RMNN;ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> False witness (false testimony) is among the things that defile a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew15.18-20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and among the seven things God hates.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%206.16-19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
<br />
==Punishment==<br />
<br />
A charge was established only on the evidence of two or three witnesses<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy19.15,%2017.6-7,%20Numbers35.30,%20Matthew%2018.15-17,%20John%208.17,%20Hebrews10.28,%201Timothy%205.19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the witness is a liar, they must do to him as he intended (meant) to do to his brother, to be an example to the others.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy19.15-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
<br />
The witness who hid what he had seen or what he knew bore his iniquity; if he realized his guilt, he had to [[confess]] his [[sin]], brought to the Lord a female lamb or goat from the flock (or two turtledoves or two pigeons, or a tenth of an ephah of fine flour) for a sin offering as his compensation for the sin he had committed. And the priest made atonement for him for his sin and he was forgiven.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus5.1-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
<br />
==The lying witness==<br />
<br />
The lying witness is a deceitful man,<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus23.1,%20Proverbs%2012.17,14.5,%2014.25,%2024.28,%20Psalm%2027.12,%2035.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> who mocks at justice.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2019.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>He is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2025.18&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> ″A false witness will not go unpunished.″ king [[Solomon]] says.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov19.5,9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>″A false witness will perish″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov21.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>(loses [[eternal life]]) if he does not [[repent]].<br />
<br />
==Cases of lying witness==<br />
<br />
Nabot was sentenced to death for cursing God and the king because two worthless men brought false witness against him. This was planned by Jezebel who ask the elders and the leaders of Nabot" s city in letters in Ahab’s name and sealed with his seal. In ths way king [[Ahab]] was able to obtain the Nabot" s vineyard which he had refused to sell because it was an inheritance of his fathers. <br />
<br />
Some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia came upon Stephen and seized him and brought him before the council and set up false witnesses against him. These false witnesses said: "This man never ceases to speak words agains this holy place ([[Temple of Jerusalem]]) and the law, for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place (Stephen said that the temple of Jesus′ body had been destroyed by others but raise it up by Him in three days, according with what Jesus had said <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202.18-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>)and the customs that Moses delivered to us."(Stephen said what Jesus had said namely He had come to fulfil the Law of [[Moses]] and the Prophets<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205.17&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw Stephen′ s face was like the face of an [[angel]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts6.8-15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
<br />
Many testified falsely against [[Jesus]], but their statements did not agree. At last two witnesses said they had heard Him saying He would destroy that temple and in three days built another, not made with hands, ,(He really had meant the resurrection of His body, as a temple of the Holy Spirit, destroyed by others but raise it up by Him<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202.18-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>). Yet even about this their testimony did not agree.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark14.55-65,%20Matthew26.59-66&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
<br />
==Reference==<br />
<references/><br />
==Sources==<br />
#Bible, English Standard Version Revised, 1971<br />
#http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/<br />
<br />
[[Category:Spirituality]]<br />
<br />
[[ro:Mărturia mincinoasă]]</div>Vladimir-Adrianhttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=False_witness&diff=98851False witness2011-03-15T18:27:48Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''False witness''' is a [[sin]] forbidden by the the ninth commandment of the [[Decalogue]].<br />
<br />
==General chracteristics==<br />
<br />
The ninth Commandment forbids bearing false witness against one’s neighbour.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus20.16,%20Deuteronomy%205.20&version=RMNN;ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> False witness (false testimony) is among the things that defile a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew15.18-20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and among the seven things God hates.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%206.16-19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
<br />
==Punishment==<br />
<br />
A charge was established only on the evidence of two or three witnesses<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy19.15,%2017.6-7,%20Numbers35.30,%20Matthew%2018.15-17,%20John%208.17,%20Hebrews10.28,%201Timothy%205.19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the witness is a liar, they must do to him as he intended (meant) to do to his brother, to be an example to the others.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy19.15-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
<br />
The witness who hid what he had seen or what he knew bore his iniquity; if he realized his guilt, he had to [[confess]] his [[sin]], brought to the Lord a female lamb or goat from the flock (or two turtledoves or two pigeons, or a tenth of an ephah of fine flour) for a sin offering as his compensation for the sin he had committed. And the priest made atonement for him for his sin and he was forgiven.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus5.1-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
<br />
==The lying witness==<br />
<br />
The lying witness is a deceitful man,<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus23.1,%20Proverbs%2012.17,14.5,%2014.25,%2024.28,%20Psalm%2027.12,%2035.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> who mocks at justice.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2019.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>He is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2025.18&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> ″A false witness will not go unpunished.″ king [[Solomon]] says.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov19.5,9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>″A false witness will perish″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov21.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>(loses [[eternal life]]) if he does not [[repent]].<br />
<br />
==Cases of lying witness==<br />
<br />
Some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia came upon Stephen and seized him and brought him before the council and set up false witnesses against him. These false witnesses said: "This man never ceases to speak words agains this holy place ([[Temple of Jerusalem]]) and the law, for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place (Stephen said that the temple of Jesus′ body had been destroyed by others but raise it up by Him in three days, according with what Jesus had said <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202.18-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>)and the customs that Moses delivered to us."(Stephen said what Jesus had said namely He had come to fulfil the Law of [[Moses]] and the Prophets<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205.17&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw Stephen′ s face was like the face of an [[angel]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts6.8-15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
<br />
Many testified falsely against [[Jesus]], but their statements did not agree. At last two witnesses said they had heard Him saying He would destroy that temple and in three days built another, not made with hands, ,(He really had meant the resurrection of His body, as a temple of the Holy Spirit, destroyed by others but raise it up by Him<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202.18-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>). Yet even about this their testimony did not agree.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark14.55-65,%20Matthew26.59-66&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
<br />
==Reference==<br />
<references/><br />
==Sources==<br />
#Bible, English Standard Version Revised, 1971<br />
#http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/<br />
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[[Category:Spirituality]]<br />
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[[ro:Mărturia mincinoasă]]</div>Vladimir-Adrianhttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Theft&diff=98848Theft2011-03-15T10:43:45Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: New page: '''Theft''' is a sin that breaks the 8th commandment of Decalogue and the commandment of loving the neighbour. ===General characteristics=== Theft violates the 8th commandmen...</p>
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<div>'''Theft''' is a [[sin]] that breaks the 8th commandment of [[Decalogue]] and the commandment of [[loving]] the neighbour.<br />
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===General characteristics===<br />
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Theft violates the 8th commandment of [[Decalogue]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020.15,%20Deuteronomy5.19,%20Matthew19.19,%20Mark10.19,%20Luke18.20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and breaks the commandment of [[loving]] the neighbour.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans13.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Like other sins, theft defiles a person, because it comes out of the heart<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew15.10-20,%20Mark%207.20-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and the sinner will not inherit the [[kingdom of God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians6.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> if he doesn’t [[repent]] of his sins, like [[Zacchaeus]], the chief tax collector.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Lc19.1-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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===Punishment===<br />
The law obliged the thief to pay double (in case of finding the stolen thing-<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus22.4-9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>), four or five times (if it is an ox or a sheep, cut or sold-<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus22.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) or seven times (if the thief steals because he is hungry) -<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs6.30-31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>).If the thief wasn’t able to pay compensation for his theft by selling his things, he was sold as a slave.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus22.2-3&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV;RMNN</ref> If the thief [[confessed]] his sin, he was allowed to return the object, adding a fifth of its price and he brought to the [[priest]] as his compensation to the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering; and the priest made atonement for him before the Lord, and he was [[forgiven]]. If a thief was caught breaking in and was struck so that he died, the defender was not guilty of bloodshed;<br />
but if it happened after sunrise, he was guilty of bloodshed.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus22.2-3&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Death was the penalty for stealing a man.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus21.16,%20Deuteronomy24.7,%20Genesis37.26-28,%2040.14-15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
===Causes===<br />
[[Poverty]] and [[greed]] are among the reasons for theft.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs30.1-9,%20Prov%201.10-19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Besides this, stolen things are sweet and the bread (food) eaten in secret is pleasant.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs9.16-17&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The partner of a thief hates his own life;<br />
he hears the [[curse]], but discloses nothing.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.24&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Sometimes rulers are thieves or accomplices of thieves.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah1.23,%20Jeremiah7.8-11,%20Romans2.21-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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===Types of thieves===<br />
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The thief acts unexpectedly and he usualy lies in ambush , especially at night and in secluded places<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke12.35-40,%20Matthew24.42-44,%20Apocalipse3.3,16.5,%202Peter3.10,%201Thessalonians5.2,4,%20Proverbs23.28,%20Job24.14,%20Psalm74.20,%20Joel2.9,%20Jeremiah49.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Zacchaeus brought [[salvation]] upon his house because he was decided to restore fourfold to those whom he had defrauded.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Lc19.1-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The hypocritical thief is personified by [[Judas]], who took secretly his part from the money [[Jesus]] and the [[apostles]] raised for helping the [[poor]]; he disliked Mary ointed Jesus with pure nard, pretending hypocritically it would have been useful if the nard would have been sold and the money given to the poor.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ioan%2012.3-8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> There were some [[Pharisees]] like Judas: they stole, although preaching not to steal.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rom2.17-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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===Advises===<br />
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Thieves are advised to stop stealing, and to work something with their hands, to have what to share with those in need<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians4.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>. And those likely to be stolen are urged to stock treasures in [[heaven]], because there they cannot be ruined or stolen.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke12.33,%20Matthew6.19,20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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===Spiritual thievery===<br />
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There is a spiritual thievery (stealth), of those who steal minds and [[souls]] with misleading teachings.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John10.1-10,%20Hebrews13.9,%20Collosians2.8,%20Jeremiah23.30&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>. Because the minds and the souls belongs to [[God]] who created them.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201.26-29,%20Genesis%202.7&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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<div>'''False witness''' is a [[sin]] forbidden by the the ninth commandment of the [[Decalogue]].<br />
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The ninth Commandment forbids bearing false witness against one’s neighbour.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus20.16,%20Deuteronomy%205.20&version=RMNN;ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> False witness (false testimony) is among the things that defile a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew15.18-20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and among the seven things God hates.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%206.16-19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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A charge was established only on the evidence of two or three witnesses<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy19.15,%2017.6-7,%20Numbers35.30,%20Matthew%2018.15-17,%20John%208.17,%20Hebrews10.28,%201Timothy%205.19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the witness is a liar, they must do to him as he intended (meant) to do to his brother, to be an example to the others.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy19.15-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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The witness who hid what he had seen or what he knew bore his iniquity; if he realized his guilt, he had to [[confess]] his [[sin]], brought to the Lord a female lamb or goat from the flock (or two turtledoves or two pigeons, or a tenth of an ephah of fine flour) for a sin offering as his compensation for the sin he had committed. And the priest made atonement for him for his sin and he was forgiven.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus5.1-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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The lying witness is a deceitful man,<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus23.1,%20Proverbs%2012.17,14.5,%2014.25,%2024.28,%20Psalm%2027.12,%2035.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> who mocks at justice.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2019.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>He is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2025.18&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> ″A false witness will not go unpunished.″ king [[Solomon]] says.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov19.5,9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>″A false witness will perish″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov21.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>(loses [[eternal life]]) if he does not [[repent]].<br />
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Some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia came upon Stephen and seized him and brought him before the council and set up false witnesses against him. These false witnesses said: "This man never ceases to speak words agains this holy place ([[Temple of Jerusalem]]) and the law, for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place (Stephen said that the temple of Jesus′ body had been destroyed by others but raise it up by Him in three days, according with what Jesus had said <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202.18-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>)and the customs that Moses delivered to us."(Stephen said what Jesus had said namely He had come to fulfil the Law of [[Moses]] and the Prophets<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205.17&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw Stephen′ s face was like the face of an [[angel]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts6.8-15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Many testified falsely against [[Jesus]], but their statements did not agree. At last two witnesses said they had heard Him saying He would destroy that temple and in three days built another, not made with hands, ,(He really had meant the resurrection of His body, as a temple of the Holy Spirit, destroyed by others but raise it up by Him<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202.18-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>). Yet even about this their testimony did not agree.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark14.55-65,%20Matthew26.59-66&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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<div>'''Envy''' is one of the seven deadly [[sin]]s.<br />
====A ruining flesh sin====<br />
Envy is a [[sin]] of flesh.<ref>1Corinthians 3.3</ref> Envy (evil eye) is among the things that come from the heart, defiling a person.<ref>Mark 7.20-23</ref> The whole body is full of darkness when the eye, the lamp of body, is bad.<ref>Luke11.34-36, Matthew6.22-23</ref> Envy ruins the body health because it makes the bone rot<ref>Proverbs14.30</ref> and excludes us from inheriting the [[kingdom of God]].<ref>Galatians 5.19-21, Proverbs 17.5</ref> Sometimes, as a punishment, God leaves some people in their sins, falling prey to envy and other heavy sins.<ref>Romans 1:28-29-32</ref><br />
====Universal and profound sin====<br />
The basis of all toil and all skill of the people<ref>Ecclesiastes4.4</ref>(we always choose our job because we want the wealthy, fame and pleasures we see at the others" s job around us), envy is, therefore, a sin deeply engraved in human nature.<ref>Ecclesiastes4.4</ref>It appears (comes into being) when man lacks certain things, circumstance that exist when either he does not ask it from God or asks to spend it on his passions (pleasures).<ref>James 4.1-2-3</ref><br />
====Genesis and causes====<br />
Envy may be cause by [[wealth]] ([[Isaac]], envied of Philistines.<ref>Genesis 26.12-14-16, Psalm73.3</ref>), by the brightness of wealth, power and beauty (Assyria kingdom envied of other kingdoms<ref>Ezekiel31.1-9</ref>, by political and military rising ( [[Saul]] eyed [[David]] from the moment he heard the women song of joy<ref>1Samuel18.5-9</ref>), fertility (Leah, envied of Rachel<ref>Genesis 29.20-30.1-2</ref>), social ascent ([[Joseph (son of Jacob)|Joseph]] whom his brothers were jealous of<ref>Genesis 37.1-11, Acts 7.9</ref>), countless [[miracle]]s and healings (the [[apostle]]s envied of high priest and the Sadducees<ref>Acts 5.12-17-20</ref>), popularity (Paul and Barnabas, envied of unfaithful Jewish from Antioch-<ref>Acts13.44-45-47</ref>), the success of Christianization of many Thessalonians (Paul and Silas , envied of unfaithful Jews from Thessalonica<ref>Acts 17.5 </ref>), [[virtue]]s and true power to heal, to make miracles and to teach people ([[Jesus]] envied of the chief [[priest]]s<ref>Mark15.6-10-15, Matthew 27.15-18-26)</ref> <br />
====God will reward each according to his deeds====<br />
Christians must not fall into the trap of envying of the wicked who seem to have a happy and untroubled life, but always be aware that God will reward each according to his deeds. The true Christian will be sure, as the psalmist the moment he enters the temple of God, that those bloated, with ,,pride as necklace’’ and ,,violence as garment’’ (clothing), which are stumbling block to the [[faith]] of ordinary people, will fade like greens, will be cut down quickly like the grass ", being thrown away and ruined the right time.<ref>Proverbs23.17, 24.1, 3.31, 24.19, 28.22, Psalm 37.1-2, 72.3,73.3</ref><br />
====Happy for anyone saved====<br />
Also, the Christians must not look with evil eye at the last converts to avoid therefore becoming the last ones, missing the kingdom of God<ref>Matthew20.1-15-16</ref> They should be happy for anyone saved, like Christ, who came to save the lost, as the shepherd seeking the lost sheep. Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector, was among the lost ones and he succeeded in bringing [[salvation]] to him and to his house.<ref>Matthew18.10-14, Luke9.51-56,19.1-10</ref><br />
====No good eating the envier’s bread====<br />
It is no good eating the envier’s bread, nor desiring his delicacies, because he is like one who is inwardly calculating”, his heart is not with you” and so ,,you will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words”.<ref>Proverbs 23.6 </ref> <br />
====Envy and wisdom====<br />
Sometimes arisen out of sophistry<ref>1 Timothy 6.4-5</ref>, envy cannot coexist with true and spiritual [[wisdom]], but with false, earthly, unspiritual, demonic wisdom.<ref>James 3.13-16</ref><br />
====Struggle against envy====<br />
Throwing away envy is a crucial condition in our path to [[salvation]].<ref>2 Peter 2.1-2, Job 31.29, Obadiah1.12</ref> Envy was seen by the [[Apostle Paul]] as a real danger even within the first Christian communities.<ref>2 Corinthians 12.20, Galatians5.26 </ref> Envy should remain a sin of the past, defeated by God teaching<ref>Titus 3.3, Romans13.13</ref>, which, as in the tenth commandment, forbids us from coveting our neighbour’s things, woman, and servants,<ref>Exodus 20.17, Deuteronomy5.21</ref> and urges us to rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep, as Apostle Paul said<ref>Romans12.15</ref>, and to love our neighbours as ourselves.<ref>Matthew22.39, Mark12.31, Luke10.27</ref> Because brotherly, Christian [[love]] banishes definitively envy from our hearts.<ref>1Corinthians13.4-10</ref><br />
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Pride defiles a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark7.18-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and will bring him low<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and then disgrace comes upon him<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs11.2,%2025.27&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, because the arrogance is an abomination to the [[God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs8.12-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm101.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and the haughty eyes, the eyelids lift <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs30.13,%20Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1,2,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and lofty words<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20131.1,2,%2017.10,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> are among the things God hates.<br />
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Presumptuous [[sin]]s are the base of great transgression.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Conceit is the lamp of the wicked<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2021.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and the fool is reckless (hotheaded) and careless.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.16&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride only breeds [[quarrel]]s<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs13.10,%2030.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>and the proud man or the man with [[evil thoughts]] should put hand on his mouth because pressing [[anger]] produces strife.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov30.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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True [[wisdom]] is incompatible with pride<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Pride is present in the speeches of false teachers.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
There is more [[hope]] for a fool than for somebody that is ″wise in his own eyes″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs26.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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[[Jesus]] criticized those who think they are right before God and boast about their moral performance, falling into the [[sin]] of pride. Pride often grows from the soil of fairness and [[humility]] often grows out of sinners’ tears.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke18.9-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride, along with many other sins, will dominate the hearts of many people in the last days<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Types of proud man==<br />
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Sometimes the proud man is boastful.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James4.13-16,%20Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm10.3,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Proverbs%2025.14,%2027.2&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Only good deeds alone may be a reason for praise (boasting), because the true reason for praising himself (boasting) (coming from others-<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians6.3-6,%20James1.9-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) is what is in the heart, not in outward appearance.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Corinthians5.11-12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> People often boast unreasonably about things they received<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians4.6-7&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> (goods, noble origin, good health, high education, etc.) <br />
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Sometimes proud man is an atheist<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> or cuts off some divine attributes<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.11-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Sometimes the conceited man is a scoffer (mocker)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.6,%20Proverbs1.22,%2021.24,%20Daniel11.22,%20Hosea7.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref>If the scoffers are cast out, the strife, quarrels, insults (abuses) will cease.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs22.10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Mockers stir up a city<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>. The scoffer causes suffering to himself<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and it is an abomination to all people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Whoever mocks the poor, insults his Maker<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs17.5,%2014.31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and he will be mocked by God<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%203.34&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The mocker does not listen to anyone reproving him <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.7-8,%2013.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, so the sentences (penalties, condemnations), including strikes (flogs), are reserved to them to be recovered.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs19.25,29,21.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the revilers remain the same, they will not see the [[kingdom of God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians6.9-10,%20Isaiah29.20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> There will be some scoffers in the last days.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude1.18,%202Peter3.3&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Under the shelter of success, the wicked and proud man is contemptuous, a murderer and oppressor of the poor, boastful, atheist or blasphemer, his mouth is full of curses and deceit.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Or, happy and untroubled by any suffering, he is prosperous, fat and sleek, oppressive, has a tireless tongue and become a stumbling-block for ordinary people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm73&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Psalmist prays that God repays to the proud (people)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2012.3,%20Psalm%2031.18,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Psalm%20119.21,%20Psalm119.78,%20Psalm%20119.122&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref> God knows the conceits<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm138.6,%201Samuel2.3-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and He stands against the proud (people)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2015.25,%20Proverbs3.34,%20James4.6,%201Peter5.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, [[humble]] their heart (bowed down their hearts)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm%2031.23,%20Psalm%20,%201%20Kings%202.7,%202Samuel%2022.28,%20James4.9-10,%20Luke1.51-52,%20Matthew23.11-12,%20Luke14.7-11,%20Isaiah13.11,%20Leviticus26.13-19,%20Jeremiah13.1-9,%20Zephaniah3.10-11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> with suffering (hard labor, bitter labor)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20107.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Sources of pride==<br />
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[[Adam]] and [[Eve]] were cast out of [[heaven]] because of pride of knowledge.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis3.1-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Lucifer fell from heaven because of pride becoming Satan (the enemy, the [[devil]]).<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah14.12-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref>Knowledge puffs up but [[love]] builds up.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians8.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Power and wealth are the second cause of pride: Assyrian king Sennacherib, Babylonian kings Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, Adonia, son of David, king Uzziah, king Hezekiah (see the following chapter)<br />
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==The pride of rulers== <br />
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Spoilt [[Adonijah]] turned up daringly against his father, king [[David]], plotting to grab the power.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kings1.5-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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God punished the pride of '''Sennacherib''', sending an [[angel]] that killed 185,000 soldiers in his camp, forcing him to abandon the fight against [[Hezekiah]] and return to his country. There his sons killed him while praying in temple.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Kings19,%202Chronicles32.1-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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'''Nebuchadnezzar''' received so much power so ″his heart was lifted up and ,,his spirit was hardened with pride″). As prophet Daniel had interpreted his disturbing dream, ″he was brought down from his kingly throne″ and ″stripped of his glory″. He was ″driven from among men, and his mind was made like that of a beast: his dwelling was with the wild donkeys and with the beasts of the field. He was made to eat grass like an ox and was wet with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird. Seven periods of time (years) passed over him until he admitted that ″the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whomever he wishes″ and then the throne was returned to him.″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel4.1-37,%205.18-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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'''Belshazzar''' did not learn anything from his father’s history and did not [[humble]] his heart before God, so God's message, written by the fingers of a human hand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lamp stand, confirms ruthlessly (ascertains ruthlessly the truth of) Daniel interpretation: Belshazzar is killed and his kingdom will be given to Medes and Perses, Darius receiving it at the age of about sixty-two years.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel5.1-31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref> <br />
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King [[Uzziah]], son of Amata, ″did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper″. Besides this, he became an influential regional leader, with a very large army and grew very strong. But when getting so strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord and entered the temple of the Lord to burn [[incense]] on the altar of incense, that [[priest]]s alone, who are consecrated for this, were allowed to do. Faced by Azariah, the chief priest, and other eighty priests, he became [[angry]] and God struck him and leprosy broke out on his forehead. King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house. <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles%2026.1-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Being sick to death, [[Hezekiah]] [[prayed]] to the Lord and the Lord healed him. Instead of ″making return according to the benefit done to him″, Hezekiah, abandoned by God who wanted to put him to the test, grew proud: Hezekiah welcomed Babylonian envoys and he ″showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armoury, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them″. Then God's wrath befell him and Judah and Jerusalem, but Hezekiah humbled himself along with the inhabitants of Jerusalem, making the wrath of God not to come upon them during his life. [[Isaiah]] told him that after his death the country would be looted and some of his children would be taken into captivity in the palace of the king of Babylon.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles32.23-31,%202Kings20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==The pride of countries==<br />
God punished the pride of Jacob where luxury, injustice and lazy callousness became unbearable. God decided he will ″deliver up the city and all that is in it."<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos6.1-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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God punished the proud Tyr, who ″thinks (fancies) he is a god, the merchant of the nations”, that, heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets”, ″the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honoured of the earth, the richest of the people” in order to ″defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonour all the honoured of the earth”.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah9.1-6,%20Isaiah23.1-58,%20Ezekiel28.1-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be crushed. Judges and soldiers reel with wine and stagger with strong drink, priest and [[prophets]] too: reel in vision, stumble in giving judgment; in addition they are scoffing.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah28.1-29&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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The pride of Egypt will be destroyed with the 'sword' Babylon. Egypt, which was like a dragon in the seas, which he burst forth in his rivers, troubles the waters with his feet, and fouls their rivers will be caught and crushed. Those ″who spread terror in the land of the living ", as Meshech and Tubal, will be killed by the sword.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel32&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Israel will be punished for his abominations ([[idolatry]], [[greed]], [[murder]], violence) the worst people will take their homes and pride of the mighty will come to the end.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7.24&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride is one of [[Sodom]]’s sins.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel16.49-50&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Isaiah prophesied to Judah and Jerusalem, reproving them for their idolatry and greed: when [[Jesus]] will come ,,the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day”.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7,%20Isaiah%202&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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God put the Moab’s pride to shame, because its inhabitants were idolaters, they mock the people of God and boasted against him.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah16.1-14,%20Zephaniah%202,%20Jeremiah%2048&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Struggle against pride==<br />
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The psalmist asked [[God]] to keep him back from the presumptuous [[sins]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The Christian keeps away from the proud people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm40.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Christian [[love]] casts out pride for ever.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians13.4-8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Reference==<br />
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#Bible, English Standard Version Revised, 1971<br />
#http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/<br />
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[[ro:Mândria]]</div>Vladimir-Adrianhttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Sloth&diff=98841Sloth2011-03-15T09:39:31Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: </p>
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<div>'''Sloth''' is one of the seven deadly [[sin]]s.<br />
==Lazy man falls prey to poverty==<br />
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Ridiculously indolent<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2019.24,%2026.15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and lover of sleep <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs6.9-11,19.15,26.14,%2024.33-34&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, the lazy man sees lions all over the street<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs22.13,%2026.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>(overestimating the difficulty of getting a job or working). ; his desires ″kill″ him<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs21.25-26&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> because ″his hands refuse to labour″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs21.25-26,1%20Thessalonians%204.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and his path becomes a ″hedge of thorns″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs15.19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> ... while he is [[wiser]] than seven sensible men in his own eyes.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs26.16&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> .... His household becomes a real ruin<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes10.18,%20Proverbs24.30-32&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and he falls prey to his ″want″(scarcity) coming like an armed man and in the end to [[poverty]], coming upon him like a robber.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs6.9-11,%2010.4,%2013.4,19.15,12.24,%2020.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The sluggard (lazy man) will share this fate with the [[talkative]] persons, with dreamers that ″watch the wind″ or ″regard the clouds″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Eccl%2011.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and with those who ″chase fantasies″ (follow worthless pursuits).<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs28.19,%2012.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==The lazy man with job and the rich lazy man==<br />
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If, however, this lazy man is the type that, eventually, ″takes his food to mouth″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs26.15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> (because there is a type of lazy man who doesn’t even take his food to mouth<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs19.24&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) and has a job, he is like ″vinegar to the teeth″ and ″smoke to the eyes″ for those who send him with any task.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs10.26&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the sluggard is [[rich]], he should avoid getting that lazy insensitiveness of the chief people of Zion, that delight themselves in every way possible, and whom the prophet [[Amos]] predicted they would become slaves.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos%206.1-7&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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==The ant, model of diligence==<br />
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The ant, which has no chief , no overseer, no ruler, is the model of foresight and [[diligence]] that lazy man should pay attention to, and in that way he becomes [[wiser]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs6.6-8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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==The excellent wife==<br />
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An excellent wife is hard to find and if so, she is ″far more precious than jewels″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs31.10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>She ″does not eat the bread of idleness″. On the contrary she ″rises while it is yet night″, ″seeks wool and flax and works with willing hands″, ″provides food for her household and portions for her maidens″. ″She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant″, ″considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard″. ″She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy″. ″Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come″. ″She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs31.10-29&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Young widows ″learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not″ if they don’t do what they should do, namely marry, have [[children]] and be housewives in their homes.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Timothy5.11-15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==The lazy man leaves God's gifts unused==<br />
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The wicked<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke19.22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew25.26&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, worthless servant.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew25.30&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> that buries his talent in the ground, instead of investing the money with the banker, i.e. one who disregards God's gift, leaving it unused, is also lazy.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew25.26&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> His talent will be taken from him and will be given to the one who has 10 talents and the worthless servant is thrown into the darkness of [[hell]], where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.<br />
<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew25.28-30,%20Luke19.26-27&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> (the entire [[parable of the talents]] here).<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew25.13-30,%20Luke19.11-27&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==The lazy man breaks again the command of God==<br />
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Whoever is lazy (slack) in his work becomes brother to one who destroys<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbe%2018.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> (meaning The Evil-One, the [[devil]] because the devil is murderer<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%208.44&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) for the second time<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%203&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> He breaks again the command of [[God]], Who sent him to work this time, for not obeying God, Who forbids them to eat from the [[tree of knowledge of good and evil]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%203.%2017-19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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===The growth of the virtues is the enemy of laziness===<br />
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The Christian must not become sluggish (lazy), but be a zealous follower of those who ″inherit the promises″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%206.11-12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> because the growth of the [[virtues]] makes the laziness go away.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Peter1.5-9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Reference==<br />
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==Sources==<br />
#Bible, English Standard Version Revised, 1971<br />
#http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/<br />
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[[Category:Spirituality]]<br />
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[[ro:Lenea]]</div>Vladimir-Adrianhttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Sloth&diff=98840Sloth2011-03-15T09:33:10Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: New page: ==Lazy man falls prey to poverty== Ridiculously indolent<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2019.24,%2026.15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and lover of sleep <ref>http...</p>
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<div>==Lazy man falls prey to poverty==<br />
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Ridiculously indolent<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2019.24,%2026.15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and lover of sleep <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs6.9-11,19.15,26.14,%2024.33-34&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, the lazy man sees lions all over the street<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs22.13,%2026.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>(overestimating the difficulty of getting a job or working). ; his desires ″kill″ him<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs21.25-26&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> because ″his hands refuse to labour″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs21.25-26,1%20Thessalonians%204.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and his path becomes a ″hedge of thorns″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs15.19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> ... while he is [[wiser]] than seven sensible men in his own eyes.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs26.16&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> .... His household becomes a real ruin<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes10.18,%20Proverbs24.30-32&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and he falls prey to his ″want″(scarcity) coming like an armed man and in the end to [[poverty]], coming upon him like a robber.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs6.9-11,%2010.4,%2013.4,19.15,12.24,%2020.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The sluggard (lazy man) will share this fate with the [[talkative]] persons, with dreamers that ″watch the wind″ or ″regard the clouds″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Eccl%2011.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and with those who ″chase fantasies″ (follow worthless pursuits).<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs28.19,%2012.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==The lazy man with job and rich lazy man==<br />
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If, however, this lazy man is the type that, eventually, ″takes his food to mouth″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs26.15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> (because there is a type of lazy man who doesn’t even take his food to mouth<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs19.24&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) and has a job, he is like ″vinegar to the teeth″ and ″smoke to the eyes″ for those who send him with any task.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs10.26&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the sluggard is [[rich]], he should avoid getting that lazy insensitiveness of the chief people of Zion, that delight themselves in every way possible, and whom the prophet [[Amos]] predicted they would become slaves.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos%206.1-7&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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==The ant, model of diligence==<br />
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The ant, which has no chief , no overseer, no ruler, is the model of foresight and [[diligence]] that lazy man should pay attention to, and in that way he becomes [[wiser]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs6.6-8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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==The excellent wife==<br />
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An excellent wife is hard to find and if so, she is ″far more precious than jewels″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs31.10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>She ″does not eat the bread of idleness″. On the contrary she ″rises while it is yet night″, ″seeks wool and flax and works with willing hands″, ″provides food for her household and portions for her maidens″. ″She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant″, ″considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard″. ″She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy″. ″Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come″. ″She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs31.10-29&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Young widows ″learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not″ if they don’t do what they should do, namely marry, have [[children]] and be housewives in their homes.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Timothy5.11-15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==The lazy man leaves God's gifts unused==<br />
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The wicked<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke19.22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew25.26&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, worthless servant.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew25.30&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> that buries his talent in the ground, instead of investing the money with the banker, i.e. one who disregards God's gift, leaving it unused, is also lazy.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew25.26&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> His talent will be taken from him and will be given to the one who has 10 talents and the worthless servant is thrown into the darkness of [[hell]], where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.<br />
<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew25.28-30,%20Luke19.26-27&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> (the entire [[parable of the talents]] here).<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew25.13-30,%20Luke19.11-27&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==The lazy man breaks again the command of God==<br />
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Whoever is lazy (slack) in his work becomes brother to one who destroys<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbe%2018.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> (meaning The Evil-One, the [[devil]] because the devil is murderer<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%208.44&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) for the second time<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%203&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> He breaks again the command of [[God]], Who sent him to work this time, for not obeying God, Who forbids them to eat from the [[tree of knowledge of good and evil]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%203.%2017-19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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===The growth of the virtues is the enemy of laziness===<br />
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The Christian must not become sluggish (lazy), but be a zealous follower of those who ″inherit the promises″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%206.11-12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> because the growth of the [[virtues]] makes the laziness go away.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Peter1.5-9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Reference==<br />
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[[Category:Spirituality]]</div>Vladimir-Adrianhttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Pride&diff=98839Pride2011-03-15T09:23:10Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: </p>
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<div>==General characteristics==<br />
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Pride defiles a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark7.18-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and will bring him low<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and then disgrace comes upon him<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs11.2,%2025.27&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, because the arrogance is an abomination to the [[God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs8.12-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm101.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and the haughty eyes, the eyelids lift <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs30.13,%20Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1,2,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and lofty words<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20131.1,2,%2017.10,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> are among the things God hates.<br />
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Presumptuous [[sin]]s are the base of great transgression.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Conceit is the lamp of the wicked<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2021.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and the fool is reckless (hotheaded) and careless.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.16&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride only breeds [[quarrel]]s<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs13.10,%2030.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>and the proud man or the man with [[evil thoughts]] should put hand on his mouth because pressing [[anger]] produces strife.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov30.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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True [[wisdom]] is incompatible with pride<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Pride is present in the speeches of false teachers.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
There is more [[hope]] for a fool than for somebody that is ″wise in his own eyes″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs26.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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[[Jesus]] criticized those who think they are right before God and boast about their moral performance, falling into the [[sin]] of pride. Pride often grows from the soil of fairness and [[humility]] often grows out of sinners’ tears.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke18.9-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride, along with many other sins, will dominate the hearts of many people in the last days<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Types of proud man==<br />
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Sometimes the proud man is boastful.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James4.13-16,%20Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm10.3,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Proverbs%2025.14,%2027.2&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Only good deeds alone may be a reason for praise (boasting), because the true reason for praising himself (boasting) (coming from others-<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians6.3-6,%20James1.9-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) is what is in the heart, not in outward appearance.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Corinthians5.11-12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> People often boast unreasonably about things they received<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians4.6-7&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> (goods, noble origin, good health, high education, etc.) <br />
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Sometimes proud man is an atheist<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> or cuts off some divine attributes<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.11-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Sometimes the conceited man is a scoffer (mocker)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.6,%20Proverbs1.22,%2021.24,%20Daniel11.22,%20Hosea7.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref>If the scoffers are cast out, the strife, quarrels, insults (abuses) will cease.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs22.10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Mockers stir up a city<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>. The scoffer causes suffering to himself<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and it is an abomination to all people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Whoever mocks the poor, insults his Maker<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs17.5,%2014.31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and he will be mocked by God<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%203.34&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The mocker does not listen to anyone reproving him <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.7-8,%2013.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, so the sentences (penalties, condemnations), including strikes (flogs), are reserved to them to be recovered.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs19.25,29,21.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the revilers remain the same, they will not see the [[kingdom of God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians6.9-10,%20Isaiah29.20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> There will be some scoffers in the last days.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude1.18,%202Peter3.3&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Under the shelter of success, the wicked and proud man is contemptuous, a murderer and oppressor of the poor, boastful, atheist or blasphemer, his mouth is full of curses and deceit.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Or, happy and untroubled by any suffering, he is prosperous, fat and sleek, oppressive, has a tireless tongue and become a stumbling-block for ordinary people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm73&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Psalmist prays that God repays to the proud (people)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2012.3,%20Psalm%2031.18,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Psalm%20119.21,%20Psalm119.78,%20Psalm%20119.122&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref> God knows the conceits<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm138.6,%201Samuel2.3-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and He stands against the proud (people)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2015.25,%20Proverbs3.34,%20James4.6,%201Peter5.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, [[humble]] their heart (bowed down their hearts)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm%2031.23,%20Psalm%20,%201%20Kings%202.7,%202Samuel%2022.28,%20James4.9-10,%20Luke1.51-52,%20Matthew23.11-12,%20Luke14.7-11,%20Isaiah13.11,%20Leviticus26.13-19,%20Jeremiah13.1-9,%20Zephaniah3.10-11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> with suffering (hard labor, bitter labor)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20107.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Sources of pride==<br />
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[[Adam]] and [[Eve]] were cast out of [[heaven]] because of pride of knowledge.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis3.1-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Lucifer fell from heaven because of pride becoming Satan (the enemy, the [[devil]]).<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah14.12-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref>Knowledge puffs up but [[love]] builds up.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians8.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Power and wealth are the second cause of pride: Assyrian king Sennacherib, Babylonian kings Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, Adonia, son of David, king Uzziah, king Hezekiah (see the following chapter)<br />
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==The pride of rulers== <br />
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Spoilt [[Adonijah]] turned up daringly against his father, king [[David]], plotting to grab the power.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kings1.5-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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God punished the pride of '''Sennacherib''', sending an [[angel]] that killed 185,000 soldiers in his camp, forcing him to abandon the fight against [[Hezekiah]] and return to his country. There his sons killed him while praying in temple.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Kings19,%202Chronicles32.1-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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'''Nebuchadnezzar''' received so much power so ″his heart was lifted up and ,,his spirit was hardened with pride″). As prophet Daniel had interpreted his disturbing dream, ″he was brought down from his kingly throne″ and ″stripped of his glory″. He was ″driven from among men, and his mind was made like that of a beast: his dwelling was with the wild donkeys and with the beasts of the field. He was made to eat grass like an ox and was wet with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird. Seven periods of time (years) passed over him until he admitted that ″the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whomever he wishes″ and then the throne was returned to him.″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel4.1-37,%205.18-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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'''Belshazzar''' did not learn anything from his father’s history and did not [[humble]] his heart before God, so God's message, written by the fingers of a human hand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lamp stand, confirms ruthlessly (ascertains ruthlessly the truth of) Daniel interpretation: Belshazzar is killed and his kingdom will be given to Medes and Perses, Darius receiving it at the age of about sixty-two years.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel5.1-31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref> <br />
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King [[Uzziah]], son of Amata, ″did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper″. Besides this, he became an influential regional leader, with a very large army and grew very strong. But when getting so strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord and entered the temple of the Lord to burn [[incense]] on the altar of incense, that [[priest]]s alone, who are consecrated for this, were allowed to do. Faced by Azariah, the chief priest, and other eighty priests, he became [[angry]] and God struck him and leprosy broke out on his forehead. King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house. <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles%2026.1-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Being sick to death, [[Hezekiah]] [[prayed]] to the Lord and the Lord healed him. Instead of ″making return according to the benefit done to him″, Hezekiah, abandoned by God who wanted to put him to the test, grew proud: Hezekiah welcomed Babylonian envoys and he ″showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armoury, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them″. Then God's wrath befell him and Judah and Jerusalem, but Hezekiah humbled himself along with the inhabitants of Jerusalem, making the wrath of God not to come upon them during his life. [[Isaiah]] told him that after his death the country would be looted and some of his children would be taken into captivity in the palace of the king of Babylon.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles32.23-31,%202Kings20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==The pride of countries==<br />
God punished the pride of Jacob where luxury, injustice and lazy callousness became unbearable. God decided he will ″deliver up the city and all that is in it."<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos6.1-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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God punished the proud Tyr, who ″thinks (fancies) he is a god, the merchant of the nations”, that, heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets”, ″the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honoured of the earth, the richest of the people” in order to ″defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonour all the honoured of the earth”.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah9.1-6,%20Isaiah23.1-58,%20Ezekiel28.1-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be crushed. Judges and soldiers reel with wine and stagger with strong drink, priest and [[prophets]] too: reel in vision, stumble in giving judgment; in addition they are scoffing.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah28.1-29&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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The pride of Egypt will be destroyed with the 'sword' Babylon. Egypt, which was like a dragon in the seas, which he burst forth in his rivers, troubles the waters with his feet, and fouls their rivers will be caught and crushed. Those ″who spread terror in the land of the living ", as Meshech and Tubal, will be killed by the sword.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel32&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Israel will be punished for his abominations ([[idolatry]], [[greed]], [[murder]], violence) the worst people will take their homes and pride of the mighty will come to the end.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7.24&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride is one of [[Sodom]]’s sins.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel16.49-50&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Isaiah prophesied to Judah and Jerusalem, reproving them for their idolatry and greed: when [[Jesus]] will come ,,the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day”.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7,%20Isaiah%202&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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God put the Moab’s pride to shame, because its inhabitants were idolaters, they mock the people of God and boasted against him.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah16.1-14,%20Zephaniah%202,%20Jeremiah%2048&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Struggle against pride==<br />
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The psalmist asked [[God]] to keep him back from the presumptuous [[sins]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The Christian keeps away from the proud people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm40.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Christian [[love]] casts out pride for ever.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians13.4-8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Reference==<br />
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==Sources==<br />
#Bible, English Standard Version Revised, 1971<br />
#http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/<br />
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[[Category:Spirituality]]<br />
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[[ro:Mândria]]</div>Vladimir-Adrianhttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Pride&diff=98838Pride2011-03-15T09:17:59Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: </p>
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<div>==General characteristics==<br />
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Pride defiles a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark7.18-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and will bring him low<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and then disgrace comes upon him<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs11.2,%2025.27&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, because the arrogance is an abomination to the [[God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs8.12-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm101.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and the haughty eyes, the eyelids lift <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs30.13,%20Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1,2,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and lofty words<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20131.1,2,%2017.10,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> are among the things God hates.<br />
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Presumptuous [[sin]]s are the base of great transgression.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Conceit is the lamp of the wicked<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2021.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and the fool is reckless (hotheaded) and careless.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.16&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride only breeds [[quarrel]]s<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs13.10,%2030.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>and the proud man or the man with [[evil thoughts]] should put hand on his mouth because pressing [[anger]] produces strife.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov30.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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True [[wisdom]] is incompatible with pride<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Pride is present in the speeches of false teachers.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
There is more [[hope]] for a fool than for somebody that is ″wise in his own eyes″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs26.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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[[Jesus]] criticized those who think they are right before God and boast about their moral performance, falling into the [[sin]] of pride. Pride often grows from the soil of fairness and [[humility]] often grows out of sinners’ tears.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke18.9-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride, along with many other sins, will dominate the hearts of many people in the last days<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Types of proud man==<br />
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Sometimes the proud man is boastful.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James4.13-16,%20Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm10.3,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Proverbs%2025.14,%2027.2&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Only good deeds alone may be a reason for praise (boasting), because the true reason for praising himself (boasting) (coming from others-<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians6.3-6,%20James1.9-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) is what is in the heart, not in outward appearance.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Corinthians5.11-12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> People often boast unreasonably about things they received<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians4.6-7&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> (goods, noble origin, good health, high education, etc.) <br />
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Sometimes proud man is an atheist<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> or cuts off some divine attributes<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.11-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Sometimes the conceited man is a scoffer (mocker)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.6,%20Proverbs1.22,%2021.24,%20Daniel11.22,%20Hosea7.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref>If the scoffers are cast out, the strife, quarrels, insults (abuses) will cease.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs22.10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Mockers stir up a city<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>. The scoffer causes suffering to himself<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and it is an abomination to all people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Whoever mocks the poor, insults his Maker<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs17.5,%2014.31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and he will be mocked by God<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%203.34&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The mocker does not listen to anyone reproving him <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.7-8,%2013.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, so the sentences (penalties, condemnations), including strikes (flogs), are reserved to them to be recovered.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs19.25,29,21.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the revilers remain the same, they will not see the [[kingdom of God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians6.9-10,%20Isaiah29.20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> There will be some scoffers in the last days.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude1.18,%202Peter3.3&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Under the shelter of success, the wicked and proud man is contemptuous, a murderer and oppressor of the poor, boastful, atheist or blasphemer, his mouth is full of curses and deceit.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Or, happy and untroubled by any suffering, he is prosperous, fat and sleek, oppressive, has a tireless tongue and become a stumbling-block for ordinary people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm73&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Psalmist prays that God repays to the proud (people)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2012.3,%20Psalm%2031.18,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Psalm%20119.21,%20Psalm119.78,%20Psalm%20119.122&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref> God knows the conceits<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm138.6,%201Samuel2.3-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and He stands against the proud (people)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2015.25,%20Proverbs3.34,%20James4.6,%201Peter5.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, [[humble]] their heart (bowed down their hearts)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm%2031.23,%20Psalm%20,%201%20Kings%202.7,%202Samuel%2022.28,%20James4.9-10,%20Luke1.51-52,%20Matthew23.11-12,%20Luke14.7-11,%20Isaiah13.11,%20Leviticus26.13-19,%20Jeremiah13.1-9,%20Zephaniah3.10-11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> with suffering (hard labor, bitter labor)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20107.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Sources of pride==<br />
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[[Adam]] and [[Eve]] were cast out of [[heaven]] because of pride of knowledge.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis3.1-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Lucifer fell from heaven because of pride becoming Satan (the enemy, the [[devil]]).<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah14.12-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref>Knowledge puffs up but [[love]] builds up.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians8.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Power and wealth are the second cause of pride: Assyrian king Sennacherib, Babylonian kings Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, Adonia, son of David, king Uzziah, king Hezekiah (see the following chapter)<br />
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==The pride of rulers== <br />
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Spoilt [[Adonijah]] turned up daringly against his father, king [[David]], plotting to grab the power.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kings1.5-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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God punished the pride of '''Sennacherib''', sending an [[angel]] that killed 185,000 soldiers in his camp, forcing him to abandon the fight against [[Hezekiah]] and return to his country. There his sons killed him while praying in temple.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Kings19,%202Chronicles32.1-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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'''Nebuchadnezzar''' received so much power so ″his heart was lifted up and ,,his spirit was hardened with pride″). As prophet Daniel had interpreted his disturbing dream, ″he was brought down from his kingly throne″ and ″stripped of his glory″. He was ″driven from among men, and his mind was made like that of a beast: his dwelling was with the wild donkeys and with the beasts of the field. He was made to eat grass like an ox and was wet with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird. Seven periods of time (years) passed over him until he admitted that ″the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whomever he wishes″ and then the throne was returned to him.″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel4.1-37,%205.18-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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'''Belshazzar''' did not learn anything from his father’s history and did not [[humble]] his heart before God, so God's message, written by the fingers of a human hand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lamp stand, confirms ruthlessly (ascertains ruthlessly the truth of) Daniel interpretation: Belshazzar is killed and his kingdom will be given to Medes and Perses, Darius receiving it at the age of about sixty-two years.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel5.1-31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref> <br />
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King [[Uzziah]], son of Amata, ″did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper″. Besides this, he became an influential regional leader, with a very large army and grew very strong. But when getting so strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord and entered the temple of the Lord to burn [[incense]] on the altar of incense, that [[priest]]s alone, who are consecrated for this, were allowed to do. Faced by Azariah, the chief priest, and other eighty priests, he became [[angry]] and God struck him and leprosy broke out on his forehead. King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house. <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles%2026.1-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Being sick to death, [[Hezekiah]] [[prayed]] to the Lord and the Lord healed him. Instead of ″making return according to the benefit done to him″, Hezekiah, abandoned by God who wanted to put him to the test, grew proud: Hezekiah welcomed Babylonian envoys and he ″showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armoury, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them″. Then God's wrath befell him and Judah and Jerusalem, but Hezekiah humbled himself along with the inhabitants of Jerusalem, making the wrath of God not to come upon them during his life. [[Isaiah]] told him that after his death the country would be looted and some of his children would be taken into captivity in the palace of the king of Babylon.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles32.23-31,%202Kings20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==The pride of countries==<br />
God punished the pride of Jacob where luxury, injustice and lazy callousness became unbearable. God decided he will ″deliver up the city and all that is in it."<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos6.1-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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God punished the proud Tyr, who ″thinks (fancies) he is a god, the merchant of the nations”, that, heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets”, ″the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honoured of the earth, the richest of the people” in order to ″defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonour all the honoured of the earth”.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah9.1-6,%20Isaiah23.1-58,%20Ezekiel28.1-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be crushed. Judges and soldiers reel with wine and stagger with strong drink, priest and [[prophets]] too: reel in vision, stumble in giving judgment; in addition they are scoffing.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah28.1-29&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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The pride of Egypt will be destroyed with the 'sword' Babylon. Egypt, which was like a dragon in the seas, which he burst forth in his rivers, troubles the waters with his feet, and fouls their rivers will be caught and crushed. Those ″who spread terror in the land of the living ", as Meshech and Tubal, will be killed by the sword.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel32&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Israel will be punished for his abominations ([[idolatry]], [[greed]], [[murder]], violence) the worst people will take their homes and pride of the mighty will come to the end.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7.24&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride is one of [[Sodom]]’s sins.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel16.49-50&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Isaiah prophesied to Judah and Jerusalem, reproving them for their idolatry and greed: when [[Jesus]] will come ,,the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day”.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7,%20Isaiah%202&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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God put the Moab’s pride to shame, because its inhabitants were idolaters, they mock the people of God and boasted against him.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah16.1-14,%20Zephaniah%202,%20Jeremiah%2048&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Struggle against pride==<br />
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The psalmist asked [[God]] to keep him back from the presumptuous [[sins]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The Christian keeps away from the proud people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm40.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Christian [[love]] casts out pride for ever.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians13.4-8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Reference==<br />
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[[Category:Spirituality]]</div>Vladimir-Adrianhttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Pride&diff=98837Pride2011-03-15T09:11:43Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: </p>
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<div>==General characteristics==<br />
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Pride defiles a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark7.18-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and will bring him low<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and then disgrace comes upon him<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs11.2,%2025.27&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, because the arrogance is an abomination to the [[God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs8.12-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm101.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and the haughty eyes, the eyelids lift <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs30.13,%20Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1,2,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and lofty words<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20131.1,2,%2017.10,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> are among the things God hates.<br />
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Presumptuous [[sin]]s are the base of great transgression.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Conceit is the lamp of the wicked<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2021.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and the fool is reckless (hotheaded) and careless.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.16&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride only breeds [[quarrel]]s<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs13.10,%2030.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>and the proud man or the man with [[evil thoughts]] should put hand on his mouth because pressing [[anger]] produces strife.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov30.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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True [[wisdom]] is incompatible with pride<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Pride is present in the speeches of false teachers.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
There is more [[hope]] for a fool than for somebody that is ″wise in his own eyes″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs26.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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[[Jesus]] criticized those who think they are right before God and boast about their moral performance, falling into the [[sin]] of pride. Pride often grows from the soil of fairness and [[humility]] often grows out of sinners’ tears.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke18.9-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride, along with many other sins, will dominate the hearts of many people in the last days<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Types of proud man==<br />
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Sometimes the proud man is boastful.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James4.13-16,%20Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm10.3,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Proverbs%2025.14,%2027.2&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Only good deeds alone may be a reason for praise (boasting), because the true reason for praising himself (boasting) (coming from others-<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians6.3-6,%20James1.9-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) is what is in the heart, not in outward appearance.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Corinthians5.11-12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> People often boast unreasonably about things they received<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians4.6-7&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> (goods, noble origin, good health, high education, etc.) <br />
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Sometimes proud man is an atheist<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> or cuts off some divine attributes<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.11-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Sometimes the conceited man is a scoffer (mocker)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.6,%20Proverbs1.22,%2021.24,%20Daniel11.22,%20Hosea7.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref>If the scoffers are cast out, the strife, quarrels, insults (abuses) will cease.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs22.10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Mockers stir up a city<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>. The scoffer causes suffering to himself<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and it is an abomination to all people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Whoever mocks the poor, insults his Maker<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs17.5,%2014.31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and he will be mocked by God<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%203.34&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The mocker does not listen to anyone reproving him <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.7-8,%2013.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, so the sentences (penalties, condemnations), including strikes (flogs), are reserved to them to be recovered.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs19.25,29,21.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the revilers remain the same, they will not see the [[kingdom of God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians6.9-10,%20Isaiah29.20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> There will be some scoffers in the last days.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude1.18,%202Peter3.3&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Under the shelter of success, the wicked and proud man is contemptuous, a murderer and oppressor of the poor, boastful, atheist or blasphemer, his mouth is full of curses and deceit.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Or, happy and untroubled by any suffering, he is prosperous, fat and sleek, oppressive, has a tireless tongue and become a stumbling-block for ordinary people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm73&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Psalmist prays that God repays to the proud (people)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2012.3,%20Psalm%2031.18,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Psalm%20119.21,%20Psalm119.78,%20Psalm%20119.122&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref> God knows the conceits<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm138.6,%201Samuel2.3-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and He stands against the proud (people)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2015.25,%20Proverbs3.34,%20James4.6,%201Peter5.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, [[humble]] their heart (bowed down their hearts)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm%2031.23,%20Psalm%20,%201%20Kings%202.7,%202Samuel%2022.28,%20James4.9-10,%20Luke1.51-52,%20Matthew23.11-12,%20Luke14.7-11,%20Isaiah13.11,%20Leviticus26.13-19,%20Jeremiah13.1-9,%20Zephaniah3.10-11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> with suffering (hard labor, bitter labor)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20107.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Sources of pride==<br />
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[[Adam]] and [[Eve]] were cast out of [[heaven]] because of pride of knowledge.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis3.1-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Lucifer fell from heaven because of pride becoming Satan (the enemy, the [[devil]]).<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah14.12-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref>Knowledge puffs up but [[love]] builds up.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians8.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Power and wealth are the second cause of pride: Assyrian king Sennacherib, Babylonian kings Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, Adonia, son of David, king Uzziah, king Hezekiah (see the following chapter)<br />
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==The pride of rulers== <br />
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Spoilt [[Adonijah]] turned up daringly against his father, king [[David]], plotting to grab the power.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kings1.5-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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God punished the pride of '''Sennacherib''', sending an [[angel]] that killed 185,000 soldiers in his camp, forcing him to abandon the fight against [[Hezekiah]] and return to his country. There his sons killed him while praying in temple.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Kings19,%202Chronicles32.1-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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'''Nebuchadnezzar''' received so much power so ″his heart was lifted up and ,,his spirit was hardened with pride″). As prophet Daniel had interpreted his disturbing dream, ″he was brought down from his kingly throne″ and ″stripped of his glory″. He was ″driven from among men, and his mind was made like that of a beast: his dwelling was with the wild donkeys and with the beasts of the field. He was made to eat grass like an ox and was wet with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird. Seven periods of time (years) passed over him until he admitted that ″the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whomever he wishes″ and then the throne was returned to him.″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel4.1-37,%205.18-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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'''Belshazzar''' did not learn anything from his father’s history and did not [[humble]] his heart before God, so God's message, written by the fingers of a human hand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lamp stand, confirms ruthlessly (ascertains ruthlessly the truth of) Daniel interpretation: Belshazzar is killed and his kingdom will be given to Medes and Perses, Darius receiving it at the age of about sixty-two years.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel5.1-31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref> <br />
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King [[Uzziah]], son of Amata, ″did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper″. Besides this, he became an influential regional leader, with a very large army and grew very strong. But when getting so strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord and entered the temple of the Lord to burn [[incense]] on the altar of incense, that [[priest]]s alone, who are consecrated for this, were allowed to do. Faced by Azariah, the chief priest, and other eighty priests, he became [[angry]] and God struck him and leprosy broke out on his forehead. King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house. <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles%2026.1-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Being sick to death, [[Hezekiah]] [[prayed]] to the Lord and the Lord healed him. Instead of ″making return according to the benefit done to him″, Hezekiah, abandoned by God who wanted to put him to the test, grew proud: Hezekiah welcomed Babylonian envoys and he ″showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armoury, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them″. Then God's wrath befell him and Judah and Jerusalem, but Hezekiah humbled himself along with the inhabitants of Jerusalem, making the wrath of God not to come upon them during his life. [[Isaiah]] told him that after his death the country would be looted and some of his children would be taken into captivity in the palace of the king of Babylon.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles32.23-31,%202Kings20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==The pride of countries==<br />
God punished the pride of Jacob where luxury, injustice and lazy callousness became unbearable. God decided he will ″deliver up the city and all that is in it."<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos6.1-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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God punished the proud Tyr, who ″thinks (fancies) he is a god, the merchant of the nations”, that, heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets”, ″the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honoured of the earth, the richest of the people” in order to ″defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonour all the honoured of the earth”.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah9.1-6,%20Isaiah23.1-58,%20Ezekiel28.1-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be crushed. Judges and soldiers reel with wine and stagger with strong drink, priest and [[prophets]] too: reel in vision, stumble in giving judgment; in addition they are scoffing.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah28.1-29&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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The pride of Egypt will be destroyed with the 'sword' Babylon. Egypt, which was like a dragon in the seas, which he burst forth in his rivers, troubles the waters with his feet, and fouls their rivers will be caught and crushed. Those ″who spread terror in the land of the living ", as Meshech and Tubal, will be killed by the sword.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel32&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Israel will be punished for his abominations ([[idolatry]], [[greed]], [[murder]], violence) the worst people will take their homes and pride of the mighty will come to the end.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7.24&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride is one of [[Sodom]]’s sins.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel16.49-50&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Isaiah prophesied to Judah and Jerusalem, reproving them for their idolatry and greed: when [[Jesus]] will come ,,the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day”.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7,%20Isaiah%202&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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God put the Moab’s pride to shame, because its inhabitants were idolaters, they mock the people of God and boasted against him.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah16.1-14,%20Zephaniah%202,%20Jeremiah%2048&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Struggle against pride==<br />
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The psalmist asked [[God]] to keep him back from the presumptuous [[sins]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The Christian keeps away from the proud people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm40.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Christian [[love]] casts out pride for ever.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians13.4-8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Reference==<br />
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#Bible,English Standard Version Revised, 1971<br />
#http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/</div>Vladimir-Adrianhttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Pride&diff=98836Pride2011-03-15T09:02:21Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: </p>
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<div>==General characteristics==<br />
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Pride defiles a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark7.18-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and will bring him low<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and then disgrace comes upon him<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs11.2,%2025.27&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, because the arrogance is an abomination to the [[God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs8.12-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm101.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and the haughty eyes, the eyelids lift <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs30.13,%20Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1,2,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and lofty words<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20131.1,2,%2017.10,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> are among the things God hates.<br />
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Presumptuous [[sin]]s are the base of great transgression.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Conceit is the lamp of the wicked<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2021.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and the fool is reckless (hotheaded) and careless.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.16&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride only breeds [[quarrel]]s<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs13.10,%2030.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>and the proud man or the man with [[evil thoughts]] should put hand on his mouth because pressing [[anger]] produces strife.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov30.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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True [[wisdom]] is incompatible with pride<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Pride is present in the speeches of false teachers.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
There is more [[hope]] for a fool than for somebody that is ″wise in his own eyes″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs26.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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[[Jesus]] criticized those who think they are right before God and boast about their moral performance, falling into the [[sin]] of pride. Pride often grows from the soil of fairness and [[humility]] often grows out of sinners’ tears.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke18.9-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride, along with many other sins, will dominate the hearts of many people in the last days<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Types of proud man==<br />
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Sometimes the proud man is boastful.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James4.13-16,%20Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm10.3,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Proverbs%2025.14,%2027.2&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Only good deeds alone may be a reason for praise (boasting), because the true reason for praising himself (boasting) (coming from others-<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians6.3-6,%20James1.9-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) is what is in the heart, not in outward appearance.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Corinthians5.11-12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> People often boast unreasonably about things they received<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians4.6-7&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> (goods, noble origin, good health, high education, etc.) <br />
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Sometimes proud man is an atheist<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> or cuts off some divine attributes<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.11-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Sometimes the conceited man is a scoffer (mocker)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.6,%20Proverbs1.22,%2021.24,%20Daniel11.22,%20Hosea7.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref>If the scoffers are cast out, the strife, quarrels, insults (abuses) will cease.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs22.10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Mockers stir up a city<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>. The scoffer causes suffering to himself<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and it is an abomination to all people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Whoever mocks the poor, insults his Maker<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs17.5,%2014.31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and he will be mocked by God<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%203.34&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The mocker does not listen to anyone reproving him <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.7-8,%2013.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, so the sentences (penalties, condemnations), including strikes (flogs), are reserved to them to be recovered.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs19.25,29,21.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the revilers remain the same, they will not see the [[kingdom of God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians6.9-10,%20Isaiah29.20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> There will be some scoffers in the last days.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude1.18,%202Peter3.3&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Under the shelter of success, the wicked and proud man is contemptuous, a murderer and oppressor of the poor, boastful, atheist or blasphemer, his mouth is full of curses and deceit.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Or, happy and untroubled by any suffering, he is prosperous, fat and sleek, oppressive, has a tireless tongue and become a stumbling-block for ordinary people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm73&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Psalmist prays that God repays to the proud (people)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2012.3,%20Psalm%2031.18,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Psalm%20119.21,%20Psalm119.78,%20Psalm%20119.122&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref> God knows the conceits<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm138.6,%201Samuel2.3-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and He stands against the proud (people)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2015.25,%20Proverbs3.34,%20James4.6,%201Peter5.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, [[humble]] their heart (bowed down their hearts)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm%2031.23,%20Psalm%20,%201%20Kings%202.7,%202Samuel%2022.28,%20James4.9-10,%20Luke1.51-52,%20Matthew23.11-12,%20Luke14.7-11,%20Isaiah13.11,%20Leviticus26.13-19,%20Jeremiah13.1-9,%20Zephaniah3.10-11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> with suffering (hard labor, bitter labor)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20107.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Sources of pride==<br />
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[[Adam]] and [[Eve]] were cast out of [[heaven]] because of pride of knowledge.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis3.1-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Lucifer fell from heaven because of pride becoming Satan (the enemy, the [[devil]]).<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah14.12-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref>Knowledge puffs up but [[love]] builds up.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians8.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Power and wealth are the second cause of pride: Assyrian king Sennacherib, Babylonian kings Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, Adonia, son of David, king Uzziah, king Hezekiah (see the following chapter)<br />
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==The pride of rulers== <br />
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Spoilt [[Adonijah]] turned up daringly against his father, king [[David]], plotting to grab the power.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kings1.5-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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God punished the pride of '''Sennacherib''', sending an [[angel]] that killed 185,000 soldiers in his camp, forcing him to abandon the fight against [[Hezekiah]] and return to his country. There his sons killed him while praying in temple.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Kings19,%202Chronicles32.1-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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'''Nebuchadnezzar''' received so much power so ″his heart was lifted up and ,,his spirit was hardened with pride″). As prophet Daniel had interpreted his disturbing dream, ″he was brought down from his kingly throne″ and ″stripped of his glory″. He was ″driven from among men, and his mind was made like that of a beast: his dwelling was with the wild donkeys and with the beasts of the field. He was made to eat grass like an ox and was wet with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird. Seven periods of time (years) passed over him until he admitted that ″the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whomever he wishes″ and then the throne was returned to him.″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel4.1-37,%205.18-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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'''Belshazzar''' did not learn anything from his father’s history and did not [[humble]] his heart before God, so God's message, written by the fingers of a human hand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lamp stand, confirms ruthlessly (ascertains ruthlessly the truth of) Daniel interpretation: Belshazzar is killed and his kingdom will be given to Medes and Perses, Darius receiving it at the age of about sixty-two years.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel5.1-31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref> <br />
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King [[Uzziah]], son of Amata, ″did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper″. Besides this, he became an influential regional leader, with a very large army and grew very strong. But when getting so strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord and entered the temple of the Lord to burn [[incense]] on the altar of incense, that [[priest]]s alone, who are consecrated for this, were allowed to do. Faced by Azariah, the chief priest, and other eighty priests, he became [[angry]] and God struck him and leprosy broke out on his forehead. King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house. <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles%2026.1-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Being sick to death, [[Hezekiah]] [[prayed]] to the Lord and the Lord healed him. Instead of ″making return according to the benefit done to him″, Hezekiah, abandoned by God who wanted to put him to the test, grew proud: Hezekiah welcomed Babylonian envoys and he ″showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armoury, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them″. Then God's wrath befell him and Judah and Jerusalem, but Hezekiah humbled himself along with the inhabitants of Jerusalem, making the wrath of God not to come upon them during his life. [[Isaiah]] told him that after his death the country would be looted and some of his children would be taken into captivity in the palace of the king of Babylon.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles32.23-31,%202Kings20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==The pride of countries==<br />
God punished the pride of Jacob where luxury, injustice and lazy callousness became unbearable. God decided he will ″deliver up the city and all that is in it."<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos6.1-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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God punished the proud Tyr, who ″thinks (fancies) he is a god, the merchant of the nations”, that, heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets”, ″the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honoured of the earth, the richest of the people” in order to ″defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonour all the honoured of the earth”.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah9.1-6,%20Isaiah23.1-58,%20Ezekiel28.1-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be crushed. Judges and soldiers reel with wine and stagger with strong drink, priest and [[prophets]] too: reel in vision, stumble in giving judgment; in addition they are scoffing.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah28.1-29&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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The pride of Egypt will be destroyed with the 'sword' Babylon. Egypt, which was like a dragon in the seas, which he burst forth in his rivers, troubles the waters with his feet, and fouls their rivers will be caught and crushed. Those ″who spread terror in the land of the living ", as Meshech and Tubal, will be killed by the sword.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel32&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Israel will be punished for his abominations ([[idolatry]], [[greed]], [[murder]], violence) the worst people will take their homes and pride of the mighty will come to the end.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7.24&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride is one of [[Sodom]]’s sins.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel16.49-50&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Isaiah prophesied to Judah and Jerusalem, reproving them for their idolatry and greed: when [[Jesus]] will come ,,the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day”.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7,%20Isaiah%202&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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God put the Moab’s pride to shame, because its inhabitants were idolaters, they mock the people of God and boasted against him.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah16.1-14,%20Zephaniah%202,%20Jeremiah%2048&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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==Struggle against pride==<br />
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The psalmist asked [[God]] to keep him back from the presumptuous [[sins]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The Christian keeps away from the proud people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm40.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Christian [[love]] casts out pride for ever.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians13.4-8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref></div>Vladimir-Adrianhttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Pride&diff=98835Pride2011-03-15T08:57:47Z<p>Vladimir-Adrian: New page: ==The sin of pride in Bible == ===General characteristics=== Pride defiles a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark7.18-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and will bring...</p>
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<div>==The sin of pride in Bible ==<br />
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===General characteristics===<br />
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Pride defiles a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark7.18-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and will bring him low<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and then disgrace comes upon him<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs11.2,%2025.27&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, because the arrogance is an abomination to the [[God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs8.12-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm101.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and the haughty eyes, the eyelids lift <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs30.13,%20Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1,2,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and lofty words<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20131.1,2,%2017.10,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> are among the things God hates.<br />
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Presumptuous [[sin]]s are the base of great transgression.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Conceit is the lamp of the wicked<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2021.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and the fool is reckless (hotheaded) and careless.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.16&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride only breeds [[quarrel]]s<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs13.10,%2030.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>and the proud man or the man with [[evil thoughts]] should put hand on his mouth because pressing [[anger]] produces strife.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov30.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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True [[wisdom]] is incompatible with pride<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Pride is present in the speeches of false teachers.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
There is more [[hope]] for a fool than for somebody that is ″wise in his own eyes″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs26.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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[[Jesus]] criticized those who think they are right before God and boast about their moral performance, falling into the [[sin]] of pride. Pride often grows from the soil of fairness and [[humility]] often grows out of sinners’ tears.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke18.9-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride, along with many other sins, will dominate the hearts of many people in the last days<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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===Types of proud man===<br />
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Sometimes the proud man is boastful.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James4.13-16,%20Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm10.3,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Proverbs%2025.14,%2027.2&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Only good deeds alone may be a reason for praise (boasting), because the true reason for praising himself (boasting) (coming from others-<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians6.3-6,%20James1.9-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) is what is in the heart, not in outward appearance.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Corinthians5.11-12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> People often boast unreasonably about things they received<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians4.6-7&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> (goods, noble origin, good health, high education, etc.) <br />
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Sometimes proud man is an atheist<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> or cuts off some divine attributes<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.11-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Sometimes the conceited man is a scoffer (mocker)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.6,%20Proverbs1.22,%2021.24,%20Daniel11.22,%20Hosea7.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref>If the scoffers are cast out, the strife, quarrels, insults (abuses) will cease.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs22.10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Mockers stir up a city<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>. The scoffer causes suffering to himself<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and it is an abomination to all people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Whoever mocks the poor, insults his Maker<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs17.5,%2014.31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and he will be mocked by God<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%203.34&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The mocker does not listen to anyone reproving him <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.7-8,%2013.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, so the sentences (penalties, condemnations), including strikes (flogs), are reserved to them to be recovered.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs19.25,29,21.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the revilers remain the same, they will not see the [[kingdom of God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians6.9-10,%20Isaiah29.20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> There will be some scoffers in the last days.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude1.18,%202Peter3.3&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Under the shelter of success, the wicked and proud man is contemptuous, a murderer and oppressor of the poor, boastful, atheist or blasphemer, his mouth is full of curses and deceit.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Or, happy and untroubled by any suffering, he is prosperous, fat and sleek, oppressive, has a tireless tongue and become a stumbling-block for ordinary people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm73&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Psalmist prays that God repays to the proud (people)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2012.3,%20Psalm%2031.18,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Psalm%20119.21,%20Psalm119.78,%20Psalm%20119.122&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref> God knows the conceits<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm138.6,%201Samuel2.3-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and He stands against the proud (people)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2015.25,%20Proverbs3.34,%20James4.6,%201Peter5.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, [[humble]] their heart (bowed down their hearts)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm%2031.23,%20Psalm%20,%201%20Kings%202.7,%202Samuel%2022.28,%20James4.9-10,%20Luke1.51-52,%20Matthew23.11-12,%20Luke14.7-11,%20Isaiah13.11,%20Leviticus26.13-19,%20Jeremiah13.1-9,%20Zephaniah3.10-11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> with suffering (hard labor, bitter labor)<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20107.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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===Sources of pride===<br />
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[[Adam]] and [[Eve]] were cast out of [[heaven]] because of pride of knowledge.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis3.1-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>[[Lucifer]] fell from heaven because of pride becoming [[Satan]] (the enemy, the [[devil]]).<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah14.12-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref>Knowledge puffs up but [[love]] builds up.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians8.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Power and wealth are the second cause of pride: Assyrian king Sennacherib, Babylonian kings Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, Adonia, son of David, king Uzziah, king Hezekiah (see the following chapter)<br />
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===The pride of rulers=== <br />
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Spoilt [[Adonijah]] turned up daringly against his father, king [[David]], plotting to grab the power.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kings1.5-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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God punished the pride of Sennacherib, sending an [[angel]] that killed 185,000 soldiers in his camp, forcing him to abandon the fight against [[Hezekiah]] and return to his country. There his sons killed him while praying in temple.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Kings19,%202Chronicles32.1-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Nebuchadnezzar received so much power so ″his heart was lifted up and ,,his spirit was hardened with pride″). As prophet Daniel had interpreted his disturbing dream, ″he was brought down from his kingly throne″ and ″stripped of his glory″. He was ″driven from among men, and his mind was made like that of a beast: his dwelling was with the wild donkeys and with the beasts of the field. He was made to eat grass like an ox and was wet with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird. Seven periods of time (years) passed over him until he admitted that ″the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whomever he wishes″ and then the throne was returned to him.″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel4.1-37,%205.18-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Belshazzar did not learn anything from his father’s history and did not [[humble]] his heart before God, so God's message, written by the fingers of a human hand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lamp stand, confirms ruthlessly (ascertains ruthlessly the truth of) Daniel interpretation: Belshazzar is killed and his kingdom will be given to Medes and Perses, Darius receiving it at the age of about sixty-two years.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel5.1-31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV </ref> <br />
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King [[Uzziah]], son of Amata, ″did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper″. Besides this, he became an influential regional leader, with a very large army and grew very strong. But when getting so strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord and entered the temple of the Lord to burn [[incense]] on the altar of incense, that [[priest]]s alone, who are consecrated for this, were allowed to do. Faced by Azariah, the chief priest, and other eighty priests, he became [[angry]] and God struck him and leprosy broke out on his forehead. King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house. <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles%2026.1-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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Being sick to death, [[Hezekiah]] [[prayed]] to the Lord and the Lord healed him. Instead of ″making return according to the benefit done to him″, Hezekiah, abandoned by God who wanted to put him to the test, grew proud: Hezekiah welcomed Babylonian envoys and he ″showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armoury, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them″. Then God's wrath befell him and Judah and Jerusalem, but Hezekiah humbled himself along with the inhabitants of Jerusalem, making the wrath of God not to come upon them during his life. [[Isaiah]] told him that after his death the country would be looted and some of his children would be taken into captivity in the palace of the king of Babylon.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles32.23-31,%202Kings20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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===The pride of countries===<br />
God punished the pride of Jacob where luxury, injustice and lazy callousness became unbearable. God decided he will ″deliver up the city and all that is in it."<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos6.1-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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God punished the proud Tyr, who ″thinks (fancies) he is a god, the merchant of the nations”, that, heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets”, ″the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honoured of the earth, the richest of the people” in order to ″defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonour all the honoured of the earth”.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah9.1-6,%20Isaiah23.1-58,%20Ezekiel28.1-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be crushed. Judges and soldiers reel with wine and stagger with strong drink, priest and [[prophets]] too: reel in vision, stumble in giving judgment; in addition they are scoffing.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah28.1-29&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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The pride of Egypt will be destroyed with the 'sword' Babylon. Egypt, which was like a dragon in the seas, which he burst forth in his rivers, troubles the waters with his feet, and fouls their rivers will be caught and crushed. Those ″who spread terror in the land of the living ", as Meshech and Tubal, will be killed by the sword.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel32&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Israel will be punished for his abominations ([[idolatry]], [[greed]], [[murder]], violence) the worst people will take their homes and pride of the mighty will come to the end.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7.24&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Pride is one of [[Sodom]]’s sins.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel16.49-50&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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Isaiah prophesied to Judah and Jerusalem, reproving them for their idolatry and greed: when [[Jesus]] will come ,,the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day”.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7,%20Isaiah%202&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> <br />
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God put the Moab’s pride to shame, because its inhabitants were idolaters, they mock the people of God and boasted against him.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah16.1-14,%20Zephaniah%202,%20Jeremiah%2048&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref><br />
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===Struggle against pride===<br />
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The psalmist asked [[God]] to keep him back from the presumptuous [[sins]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The Christian keeps away from the proud people.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm40.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> Christian [[love]] casts out pride for ever.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians13.4-8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref></div>Vladimir-Adrian