Proverbs 16:18

Pride leads to ruin, and an arrogant spirit precedes a downfall. It matters because self-exalting pride sets a person on the road to destruction.

Cross-references · 18

• Prov 11:2When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
• Isa 2:11–12The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
• Prov 18:12Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
• Obad 1:3–4The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
• Prov 29:23A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
• 1 Tim 3:6He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.
• Rom 11:20That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
• Prov 17:19He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his gate high invites destruction.
• Esth 6:6Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”
• Dan 4:30–37the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
• Esth 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
• Matt 26:33–35Peter said to Him, “Even if all fall away on account of You, I never will.”
• Dan 5:22But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.
• Esth 3:5When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay him homage, he was filled with rage.
• Isa 37:10–13“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
• Isa 37:38One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
• Matt 26:74At that he began to curse and swear to them, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.
• Dan 5:24Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

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