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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.
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>
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.)
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>
[[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>
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)
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>
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>
'''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>
'''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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>