By

Shelby G. Floyd



Both the Old and New Testament warn against pride. Someone has said that,

“Pride may be considered as the parent of discontent, ingratitude, covetousness, poverty, presumption, passion, extravagance, bigotry, war and persecution. In fact, there is hardly an evil perpetrated but pride is connected with it in a proximate or remote sense.”

The wise man Solomon pointed out long ago that pride leads the way to destruction: