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 {goeth} before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
5 Every proud heart is an abomination to Jehovah: hand for hand, he shall not be held innocent.
25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.
13 The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.
2 {When} pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.
2 {When} pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.
23 A man's pride bringeth him low; but the humble in spirit shall obtain honour.
23 A man's pride bringeth him low; but the humble in spirit shall obtain honour.
12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; and before honour {goeth} humility.
12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; and before honour {goeth} humility.
25 Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud; but he establisheth the boundary 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 more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against {the} proud, but gives grace to {the} lowly.
10 Humble yourselves before {the} Lord, and he shall exalt you.
9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation,10 and the rich in his humiliation, because as {the} grass's flower he will pass away.
5 Likewise {ye} younger, be subject to {the} elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against {the} proud, but to {the} humble gives grace.6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in {the due} time;7 having cast all your care upon him, for he cares about you.
11 for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.
3 {let} nothing {be} in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;4 regarding not each his own {qualities}, but each those of others also.5 For let this mind be in you which {was} also 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 all that {is} in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
12 So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
3 And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.
28 and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, {and} things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;29 so that no flesh should boast before God.
17 But he that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.18 For not *he* that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
20 And he said, That which goes forth out of the man, that defiles the man.21 For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,22 thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly;23 all these wicked things go forth from within and defile the man.
10 By pride there only cometh contention; but with the well-advised is wisdom.
4 The reward of humility {and} the fear of Jehovah is riches, and honour, and life.
17 Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for {our} 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 Jehovah said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth; for man looketh upon the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh upon the heart.
3 Do not multiply your words of pride, let not vain-glory come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a *God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
2 Even all these things hath my hand made, and all these things have been, saith Jehovah. But to this man will I look: to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and who trembleth at my word.
37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of the heavens, all whose works are truth, and his paths judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell {him}, Let not him that girdeth on boast himself as he that putteth off!
16 Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,23 meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.