Proverbs 18:12

Pride goes before destruction, but humility comes before honor. The proud heart heads toward ruin while the humble are exalted.

Cross-references · 15

• Prov 15:33The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Prov 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
• Ezek 28:2Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —
• Prov 11:2When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.
• Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Prov 29:23A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
• Ezek 28:9Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
• Acts 12:21–23On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.
• Dan 9:20While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;
• Dan 9:23At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
• Job 42:6–17Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
• Ezek 16:49–50“‘“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
• Isa 6:5–13Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
• Dan 5:23–24but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

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