Orgulho
O orgulho é um dos pecados mais condenados na Bíblia. Deus resiste aos soberbos, mas dá graça aos humildes. A humildade é o caminho da honra verdadeira.
Deus resiste ao soberbo
A soberba precede a ruína e o orgulho antecede a queda. Deus abomina o coração altivo e promete humilhar quem se exalta.
18 Pride [is] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to LORD. Hand in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
25 There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
13 The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
2 When pride comes, then comes shame, but with the lowly is wisdom.
2 When pride comes, then comes shame, but with the lowly is wisdom.
23 A man's pride shall bring him low, but he who is of a lowly spirit shall obtain honor.
23 A man's pride shall bring him low, but he who is of a lowly spirit shall obtain honor.
12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor [is] humility.
12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor [is] humility.
25 LORD will root up the house of the proud, but he will establish the border of the widow.
Humildade como caminho
Humilhai-vos diante do Senhor e Ele vos exaltará. A grandeza no Reino vem pelo serviço humilde, não pela autopromoção.
6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.
10 Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.
9 Now let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,10 but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away.
5 Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly.6 Therefore be lowered under the mighty hand of God, so that he may lift you up in time,7 having cast all your concern upon him, because he cares for you.
11 Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.
3 in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.4 Look ye out (each man) not to things of yourselves, but each man also to the things of others.5 Indeed have this way to think in you, that also was in Christ Jesus,
Os perigos do orgulho
O orgulho cega, gera contendas e afasta de Deus. A Escritura adverte contra a soberba da vida e a vã glória mundana.
16 Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
12 Therefore let him who seems to stand take heed lest he fall.
3 And if I dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing.
28 And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,29 so that no flesh may boast before God.
17 But he who boasts should boast in Lord.18 For he who commends himself, that man is not approved, but whom the Lord commends.
20 And he said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.21 For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, reviling, pride, foolishness.23 All these evil things come from inside, and defile the man.
10 Through pride a vain man causes contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised.
4 The reward of humility [and] the fear of LORD [is] riches and honor and life.
17 Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,
O olhar de Deus
O Senhor não olha como o homem. Ele vê o coração e se agrada dos quebrantados de espírito e dos que tremem diante da sua Palavra.
7 But LORD said to Samuel, Do not look on his countenance, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For [LORD sees] not as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but LORD looks on the heart.
3 Talk no more so very proudly. Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth, for LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
2 For all these things my hand has made, and all these things came to be, says LORD. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways justice. And he is able to abase those who walk in pride.
11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him who girds on [his armor] boast himself as he who puts it off.
16 thinking the same way toward each other, not thinking on lofty things, but accommodating to the lowly. Become not wise according to yourselves,
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,23 gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.